Re: [Fsfe-uk] Munich, swpat and Linux - possible in UK

[Alex Hudson]

On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 02:00 +0100, Tom Chance wrote:
> After the recent news about the Green Party stirring the city of Munich into 
> anti-software patent action [1], it made me think: would this be remotely 
> possible in the UK? 

Surely stopping the roll-out of Free Software because of some fear of
software patents is mostly akin to cutting your nose off to spite your
face? I can't think Munich's actions would be something we should try to
replicate in this country.

Cheers,

Alex.