I've written a number of times about the unsatisfactory state of software patents in Europe – theoretically forbidden, but in practice, frequently sneaking in by the back door. Now there's a petition calling for greater legal clarity....
On Open Enterprise blog.
Yes, I got an FFII email about it a couple of days ago and - hoping this was going to be a rerun of the famous half million signature petition - I signed it.
ReplyDeleteThen I noticed that it hadn't been mentioned anywhere in the press and hadn't even turned up in the FFII news feed!
I hope more publicity can be generated for it otherwise I doubt it'll do much better than a few tens of thousands of sigs. and it will have been a waste of time.
I fear you're right: they are hardly beating the drum about it. Perhaps they need to import some Spreadfirefox savvy....
ReplyDeleteSSP.eu does not even mention the threat of a central patent court.
ReplyDeleteYes, there's that as well.
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