European MP Responds on Software Patents

Wolfbone writes "The Guardian newspaper has a contributed article from the European politician Arlene McCarthy in which she responds to a previous article in the same organ by RMS and Nick Hill on the issue of software patents. If the appalling mixture of misrepresentation, non sequitur, solecism and faux-naivete does not make your blood boil, you are a cold fish indeed."

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Boiling

[jabbadabbadoo]

" If the appalling mixture of misrepresentation, non sequitur, solecism and faux-naivete does not make your blood boil,"

That sentence was enough to make my blood boil.

Re:Get them out of the EU. NOW! (flamebait)

[nagora]

Do we really need the UK? I'd say dump 'em.

Please do! It's been a total waste of time and money being a member of the EU. For a few billion quid a year we get told how to run our country for the benefit of French farmers. Whoop-de-fucking-do!

Meanwhile, it's hard to go shopping without getting several items made in China and huge whacks of the service industries are under threat from cheap labour in India.

What are the advantages of being in the EU that the poor Chinese and Indians are missing out on? They must be kicking themselves for having to only trade with us and missing the opportunity of having their laws overruled and their fiscal policy interfered with by a bunch of witless jerks on six figure job-for-life salaries.

TWW