RE: [Patents] VNU: European software patents row continues

["Alex Macfie" <cgcenet@tiscali.co.uk>]

> But several well-researched paragraphs like this one, which
> for once seems to get the
> important 'who represents what' question just right:

> "The MEPs claim to represent the interests of small software
> companies and large vendors of proprietary software such as
> Microsoft, while the FEII lobbies on behalf of engineers of
> both open source and proprietary software".

That may be down to me :) I spoke at length to the journalist by telephone
last week and emphasized quite strongly that we're not simply open-source
advocates, pointing out that I myself as a developer have so far worked
exclusively on proprietory software.