http://petition.eurolinux.org/ sign the petition against the new patents law.
find more about this law at http://swpat.ffii.org/ and mirror their website (for load
purposes).
close your website as did www.gimp.org and protest with banners, and in any other way.
God bless the virus industry.
Yo
..
I will prepare a draft statement for submission & approval by freebsd core,
So I'm cc'ing core@ this request:
Please appoint someone to prepare a policy statement:
"Software Patents - The FreeBSD Perspective"
I'm not seeking the job (got plenty else
On 11 Jan 2001, at 15:25, PILCH Hartmut wrote:
> Do we have any chance of putting a statement from a BSD organisation
> on
>
> http://petition.eurolinux.org/statements
>
> and a logo on
>
> http://petition.eurolinux.org/sponsors
>
> ?
>
> Maybe Julian could draft that stateme
Do we have any chance of putting a statement from a BSD organisation
on
http://petition.eurolinux.org/statements
and a logo on
http://petition.eurolinux.org/sponsors
?
Maybe Julian could draft that statement and have someone sign it in
the name of the FreeBSD project?
-phm
Peter Mutsaers wrote:
> >> "Julian" == Julian Stacey Jhs@jhs muc de <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >> In Europe, software
> >> patents do not exist and cannot be granted.
>
> Julian> Wrong ! Sadly ! That's the old s
>> "Julian" == Julian Stacey Jhs@jhs muc de <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> In Europe, software
>> patents do not exist and cannot be granted.
Julian> Wrong ! Sadly ! That's the old simple theoretical world I
Julian> learnt about back
routines and if someadays these patents are legal, they will make
money. There are a lot of people out in the world who have very good
ideas for good products and they want to develop them to make money (as
me, it´s my job - consulting and developing) - but without software
patents.
I think software
e only reason everyone is able to use it is
> babkin> that Adobe had explicitly granted this right to the
> babkin> public.
>
> I don't think this is possible worldwide.
Not sure, there's WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organisation ?),
(http://www.wipo.org mayb
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