Computer Business Review: Red Hat and MySQL Back European Anti-Patent Campaign | Linux Today

Computer Business Review: Red Hat and MySQL Back European Anti-Patent Campaign

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 21, 2004

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“Open source software vendors Red Hat Inc and MySQL AB have lent
their support to a new campaign against software patents in the
European Union under the name NoSoftwarePatents.com.

“Raleigh, Carolina-based Linux vendor Red Hat and Uppsala,
Sweden-based open source database vendor MySQL have joined the
NoSoftwarePatents campaign as partners, alongside web hosting firm
1&1 Internet Inc and campaign manager Florian Mueller, a
software industry veteran and advisor to MySQL…”


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Web Webster

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Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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