SSLUG (Denmark): Software patents - No thanks!

Oct 17, 2000, 07:21 (3 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Hanne Munkholm, Carsten Svaneborg, Niels Jørgensen, Keld Jørn Simonsen og, Anne Østergaard)

[ Linux Today reader Peter Toft writes: ]

Why do especially Linux/FreeBSD/Open Source users strongly go against allowing patents on software and business methods in Europe?

Did you not catch why many of us fear a future with software patents, then you can read This article from SSLUG is available in English, Danish, Swedish, and Spanish.

Feel free to support the petition from the EuroLinux Alliance

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