On Thursday 01 February 2007 12:23, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote: > The petition against software patents has only 1,817 signatories and is > ranked number 45 of all the petitions: > http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/list/open?sort=signers > > It lags behind "legalise cannabis" and "replace the national anthem with > 'Gold' by Spandau Ballet". > > The deadline is Feb 20th. Members of this list have probably already > signed it,
"Software patents are used by convicted monopolists to threaten customers who consider using rival software. As a result, patents stifle innovation..." Looks like a cunning trap devised by Simon Gentry (or whoever's doing the pro-swpat brigade's dirty work these days). I certainly won't be signing it. Paul. _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
