Torvalds And Cox Write EU Parliament On Patents

replicant_deckard writes "Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox have sent an open letter to the members of the European Parliament. They ask for strict limitations to software patents, argue for open standards and ask the members of the parliament to follow FFII's voting recommendations. Vote on the controversial software patents directive will be on Wednesday and it is expected to be a very close one. Well, do you believe these guys have any impact in Brussels?"

Comments

Beats my letter

[Anonymous Coward]

Daer UE,

Patanst r teh suckzorz!!!! Say ON TO TEHM!!!

Loev,
Anonimouse cowerd

Re:Beats my letter

[AKnightCowboy]

Daer UE, Patanst r teh suckzorz!!!! Say ON TO TEHM!!! Loev, Anonimouse cowerd

Can someone translate this? I take it this is in French since it is directed at Brussels. Babelfish is unable to translate though so perhaps it's German?

Re:Beats my letter

[BRTB]

I'm not entirely sure... the transposition and random addition of certain characters is somewhat unique, as is the failure to fully convert certain words into the common dialect, but I believe this is the message:

Dear Representatives of the European Union:

Software patents are, in the technological community, considered a dangerous and misdirected restriction of the rights of all free-thinking parties involved. I respectfully request that you decline any legislative measure giving force to ideas of legal protection for implementations of common software designs.

Sincerely,
Anonymous

Well

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, do you believe these guys have any impact in Brussels?

I don't know - how big a check are they including with their letter?

Graffiti?

[D-Cypell]

Torvalds And Cox Write EU Parliament On Patents

Now im all for this non-violent, direct action stuff, but if Linus and Alan are going to around defacing patents, im not sure i understand the relevance of 'EU Parliament'.

Perhaps it would be better to stick with the classics, "Linux and Alan woz ere" or "Linux rules OK?" for example.

Re:FFII?

[Graspee_Leemoor]

Would you take a chocobo's advice on patent law?

You: So, Mr. Random Chocobo, what are your recommendations for changing the law as it currently stands with regard to patents?

Chocobo: Kweh?

You: Or do you think that no change is necessary?

Chocobo: Wark!

You: What's that? You want me to give you some greens? I seeeeeeeeee...

graspee

Re:May have some impact

[Realistic_Dragon]

How prevalent are large campaign donations in Europe? Are lobby groups any where near as powerful as they are in the US?

No, most of our politicians push stupid, industry biased laws _without_ being purchased.

Re: Open letter

[Anonymous Coward]

Dear Alan and his friend Linus,

I've used your operating system once. It is slow, it crashed once with my Mozilla browser taking a minute to open, and none of my digital camera drivers worked with it.

Till then I suggest you improve your softwares. And Alan, tell Mom I said hi.

Love,
Pat Cox
EU President

impact of torvalds and cox

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, do you believe these guys have any impact in Brussels?

Maybe if you drop them from 20,000 meters.

Re:Wrong guys, send RMS there instead!

[jmv]

Please, don't send RMS. By the time he's done explaining why you shouldn't talk about "Intellectual Property" and why you should say "GNU/Linux", the law will already be voted.

Re:Poor grammar?

[Ichoran]

Maybe they didn't write it.