[Gllug] European Council Approves Software Patents

[Richard Jones]

On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 10:02:30PM +0100, Alain Williams wrote:
> I don't know who my euro MP is, much less what they think/stand_for.
> I suspect that most people who vote will do so either in ignorance
> or strictly on party lines - since they don't know better.

The Greens have a policy on software patents.  This web page is out of
date but shows that they get it:

http://www.greens-efa.org/en/issues/?id=14

The news is really bad for people running small software companies :-(

Rich.

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