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- From: Alex Macfie <alex@cgce.net>
- To: patents@aful.org
- Subject: Re: [Patents] EU Patent Law Delayed a Month
- Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 10:27:51 +0100
At 03:09 30/05/03 -0400, Seth Johnson wrote:
The software patent directive has sparked fierce debate in the software
industry, with free software and open source software supporters arguing
that there should be no directive at all.
As usual, opponents of swpat are all cast as "free software and open source
software supporters", which is far from the truth.
[When I write to politicians on the issue, I avoid mentioning those things,
if I do mention free/oss it is only in passing.]
Alex
Alex Macfie www.cgce.net alex@cgce.net
Trewarren, Llanddewi Rhydderch, Abergavenny, Gwent NP7 9UT
"The exclusive right to invention [is] given not of natural right,
but for the benefit of society." -- Thomas Jefferson
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