On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 02:39, Chadley Wilson wrote: snip > Mandrakesoft would like to forewarn and mobilize its users and the > software community about the very real threat of such a law. Please > contact the media, your political representatives, and your government, > and urge them to vote against unlimited Software Patents and to revert > to the previous European Parliament position. > > For further information please see the following links: > http://swpat.ffii.org/journal/04/cons0507/index.en.html > http://kwiki.ffii.org/SwpatcninoEn > > ******************************************************************* snip IMHO; That these software and patent moguls can buy our government officials (Seemingly no matter what nation) is repugnant to me and reading such articles and postings (and I have read them all) literally turns my stomach. It is a shame that the people that are supposed to represent us, no matter what nation we belong, can't hear their own people. If one considers the rampant litigation that could follow ---- fools and jesters all, and we will pay for it not them. -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
