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Father Of Linux Pushes No Patent Movement

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Linus Torvalds (Linux), Michael Widenius (MySQL) and Rasmus Lerdorf (PHP) have urged the EU Council not to adopt a draft directive on software patents that they consider "deceptive, dangerous, and democratically illegitimate." They also called on the Internet community to express solidarity by placing NoSoftwarePatents.com links and banners on their websites.

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Comments (2)

rob ·
It would be nice if "he Internet community to express solidarity by placing NoSoftwarePatents.com links and banners on their websites".... Of all the OSS-websites, how many will do this?? OSTG?? ANYONE??
bstadil ·
Linus et al were berated by a Law firm this morning http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19964

Anyone know precisely what the directive is meant for? I somehow suspect Linux to be right but would like some background material.

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