On Monday 07 March 2005 13:20, Stephen Kühn wrote: > On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 23:13, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > Here's to democracy, EU-style : > > > > http://wiki.ffii.org/Cons050307En > > > > In short : The Microsoft puppet-state Luxembourg denied council > > members from Poland, Portugal and Denmark their request to > > change the Directive on Software Patent from an A-item to a > > B-item. > > > > So friends, that was it : forget about software development in > > Europe. > > > > Kaj Haulrich. > > That is completely ridiculous. > Hell is going to break loose and there are going to be heaps of > very mad folks. > > I don't think they'll get away with it.
Well Stephen, the on-line communities here are glowing with rage already and the upcoming referendum on the EU Constitution faces even harder resistance. Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8*
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