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"False" Open source Representative Tells EU Patents OK

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-thats-a-long-subject-line dept.

Onno writes "Bruce Perens claims in this article That a false free software/open source advocate claims to EU parlement that software Patents are ok. " This is a strange article on a lot of levels so I'm gonna avoid commentary. You definitely should read it though- it's just that odd.

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  1. Re:Ok.... by ichimunki · · Score: 0, Troll

    It would have helped a lot, I think, if people like Bruce Perens had worked as part of the Free Software movement instead of confusing the issues with all the talk about Open Source. Not only that, the FSF has a clearly articulated and prominent (i.e. linked from their front web page) stand against software patents. Perhaps Bruce could work with OSI to get a similarly obvious kind of thing over at opensource.org. In fact, I can't find anything about patents at all on the OSI site. So it's easy to see why this European Open Source guy would be confused.

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  2. Will the real open source representative... by Savatte · · Score: 0, Troll

    please stand up?