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Re: [Fsfe-uk] Munich, swpat and Linux - possible in UK
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Tom Chance |
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Re: [Fsfe-uk] Munich, swpat and Linux - possible in UK |
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Thu, 5 Aug 2004 11:16:54 +0100 |
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On Thursday 05 Aug 2004 09:41, Alex Hudson wrote:
> 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.
Well in Munich the committment to Free Software has been sufficient to get the
city of Munich to start lobbying the national Government about software
patents. So I'm not asking if we can torpedo any Free Software deployments,
but rather if there are any deployments with enough committment for the same
to happen.
Regards,
Tom
- [Fsfe-uk] Munich, swpat and Linux - possible in UK, Tom Chance, 2004/08/04
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Munich, swpat and Linux - possible in UK, P.L.Hayes, 2004/08/05
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Munich, swpat and Linux - possible in UK, Alex Hudson, 2004/08/05
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Munich, swpat and Linux - possible in UK, Chris Croughton, 2004/08/05
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Munich, swpat and Linux - possible in UK, Ian Lynch, 2004/08/05
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Munich, swpat and Linux - possible in UK, Ralph Janke, 2004/08/12
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Munich, swpat and Linux - possible in UK, MJ Ray, 2004/08/12
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Munich, swpat and Linux - possible in UK, Ian Lynch, 2004/08/16
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Munich, swpat and Linux - possible in UK, Ralph Janke, 2004/08/17
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Munich, swpat and Linux - possible in UK, Ian Lynch, 2004/08/17
Re: [Fsfe-uk] Munich, swpat and Linux - possible in UK, Ralph Janke, 2004/08/12