[Gllug] New Knoppix

[Doug Winter]

On Wed 24 Sep Jason Clifford wrote:
> The vote was today I believe that software patents have been allowed 
> subject to certin limits by the EU parliament vote.

AIUI, basically, we won:

http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=community@apache.org&msgNo=2466

Limiting "technical effects" to be only "the use of the forces of nature
to control physical effects" and excluding explicitly "information
processing", sounds like winning to me :)

doug.

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