On Sunday 31 August 2003 04:11 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: <snip> > > What exactly is going on with the European Union? Are they > going to shut mplayer down or what? Who's trying to stop > them, if anybody? > > Damn, I cannot lose mplayer. > > > LX
</snip> Lyvim, tomorrow the European Parliament is about to vote on the issue of software patents. If this proposition goes through, and it is accepted by the Commission (which has the real power), the situation here in Europe will be pretty much the same as in the U.S. : everybody - well, mainly big corporations - can patent everything, thus reducing the market for small and midsize companies. A paradise for lawyers. As I said recently : We Europeans will stop working and make our living from litigation. Many people tries to stop them : petitions, demonstrations, protests from scientists are all over the place, but without much hope. Money rules. We live in dark times, Lyvim. Kaj Haulrich. -- Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.1 kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdk Sent to you from a 100 % MicroSCOft-free computer.
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