ZDNet UK: Open Source Developers Step Up Anti-Patent Campaign

"Developers are using shock tactics to persuade the open source community to get involved in the campaign against software patents.

"Over the last month various open source projects have replaced their Web home page with one that outlines the risk that the EU Directive on the Patentability of Computer Implemented Inventions, more commonly known as the Software Patent Directive, could pose to free software..."

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