I was checking in on my favorite file manager http://www.ghisler.com/ and was redirected to http://swpat.ffii.org shortly after a brief message about Christian's protest effort.
Do you think the panic is warranted? We in the US have had this sort of big fish - little fish situation for some time I think and it's hard to really see clearly how much or what loss has occurred because of software patenting. All I know at this point is how frustrating it is to have people write programs that rely on MS IE and other 'non monopolistic' freebie programs that are infused in windows.. sigh. It's becoming very tiresome trying to assemble a suite of core applications on my lean OS setup that don't require some more crap from the microsoft pasta machine. Pixie -- Using The Bat! v2.0 Beta/4 on Windows 95 4.0 ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62r | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
