[Sussex] Patents.. again

[Geoffrey J Teale]

Evenin' all,

As you are no doubt aware there's been a lot on the web this week
about the possibility that the EU commission may behave in its most
anti-democratic manner and push on with patents despite the wishes of
JURI.

I won't say much more on that subject, if it goes through then Steve
W. and I will agree on a political point more strongly than ever in
living memory.


The good news is Computer Associates, another of the worlds largest
patent holders is to follow IBM and Sun in giving F/OSS software
freedom to use it's patents without redress.  

It increasingly looks like the only really dangerous patent holders
(as far as Linux is concerned) will be our old friends at Microsoft
and SCO.

-- 
Geoff Teale
Cmed Technology    || Free Software Foundation
gteale at cmedltd.com || tealeg at member.fsf.org