Munich's Linux Migration Raises EU Patent Issues

J ROC writes "Techweb has a story about the German city of Munich's Windows-to-Linux migration. It appears the move to replace 14,000 Windows desktops with Linux has hit a bump. Green Party alderman Jens Muehlhaus, who is a supporter of open-source software, has petitioned the mayor to examine the status of software patents in the European Community. The issue involves a proposed directive on software patents that is being considered by various European governments. Muehlhaus fears that a patent owner could issue a cease-and-desist order against Munich, thus hurting the operation of various city departments."

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People are incredibly ignorant. They allow an autocratic EU state to build, develop, and continually assume that everything will be ok.

The EU citizens cannot vote out a commissioner, nor do they have even the slightest influence on the council of ministers.

The so called democratic 'parliament' is an absolute joke, both watering down ANY democracy, and weakening it by using 'majority voting' and other 'levers' of EU autocracy. Even if your country is going to suffer under a law, it is being weakened daily in its possible influence to stop horrific lawmaking and enforcement. Your courts, laws, judges, employment, social justice, patents, the works are being taken from you.

Its amazing to see haughty europeans scoff and laugh at idiotic american laws, while amazingly lauding the EU, while at the same time, it creades amazingly bad laws, horrific compromises, and all with a mass removal of democracy for its 400+ million 'citizens', man I hate that word, its a word used by evil socialists, communists, and leftists, and implies a slave person who will comply with the stinking new state.

Citizen is oft spoken in the laungauge of Hilter and Stalin-alike scum bags.

If there is to be a Europe, let it truly be democratic, not this bastardised, evil, autocratic, 'utopia' for failed,bend and corrupt politicians.

The EU has not had its accounts signed off in over nine years, and thats by its own auditors, and that is far larger than Enron.

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