[Gllug] EU patents

[itsbruce at uklinux.net]

On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 03:13:03AM +0000, Andrew Halliwell wrote:
> And verily, didst Alain Williams announce to the hordes:
> > 
> > A somewhat gloomy assessment on the upcoming vote on patents:
> > 	http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/31472.html
> > 
> > Is there anything that we can learn from this ?
> 
> Only that the eurocrats are morons...
> But we knew that anyway what with regulation bendiness in bananas and so on.

http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/eurounion/story/laws/

If free software advocates want to have any postitive impact on future
legislation then they'll need to avoid the kind of childishness detailed
on both the Register page and the above link.

-- 
Bruce

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