"Editorial: FFII is reporting that the city of Munich has halted its Linux migration while it studies the threat of software patenting. But why would the Green Party, friends of Open Source and enemies of sofware patents, have petitoned the city to cause this halt?
It's because the Green party wishes to firm up the position of the German federal government against software patenting. The EU recently passed a software patenting directive during the "first reading". That directive must now go to the "second reading", and parties in various European nations are mobilizing opposition to it. The Greens expect the City to find that global increases in software patenting would severely hinder Linux and Open Source, and make that clear to the federal government.
It's unfortunate that in response to the petition, the Munich authorities have frozen work on the Linux migration while they figure out the political problem. But this does point out, accurately, the problem of software patenting and hopefully will lead to additional action against it in Europe.- Bruce Perens "
le but est de montrer les dangers de la directive européenes sur les brevets
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Posté par 21rdoma . En réponse au journal Munich suspend sa migration Linux !. Évalué à -5.
It's because the Green party wishes to firm up the position of the German federal government against software patenting. The EU recently passed a software patenting directive during the "first reading". That directive must now go to the "second reading", and parties in various European nations are mobilizing opposition to it. The Greens expect the City to find that global increases in software patenting would severely hinder Linux and Open Source, and make that clear to the federal government.
It's unfortunate that in response to the petition, the Munich authorities have frozen work on the Linux migration while they figure out the political problem. But this does point out, accurately, the problem of software patenting and hopefully will lead to additional action against it in Europe.- Bruce Perens "
le but est de montrer les dangers de la directive européenes sur les brevets