City of Munich Freezes Its Linux Migration

Jan0815 writes "Yesterday I received disturbing news from the CTO of Munich, Wilhelm Hoegner. As previously mentioned, there is a rising concern that software patents could stifle development of open source worldwide. FFII has complete coverage of what is going on in Europe." (FFII stands for Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure.) Reader jmt(tm) writes "The call for bids was supposed to be published in late July, but the Munich Green Party had pointed out about 50 possible patent conflicts which the city wants to evaluate before moving on."

Comments

Green Party == Luddites

[ahbi]

I thought the Green Party usually contains a bunch of technology hating hippie Luddites? Who the Hell is trusting them you understand software, let alone software patents?

Re:...EU software patents?

[Ender Ryan]

Ummm... Fuck you too, asshole!

"thinkers got to eat"

Yeah, but software patents aren't helping thinkers to eat. They're helping businesses stamp out competition from those with less money.

Another moderate for critical thought. [dasmegabyte.org]

Critical thought? Not too critical, considering that 50% of patents that are contested are thrown out, to the tune of over $2,000,000 on average in legal costs. Fucking idiots like you are making it impossible for anyone but the very rich make a living. Go fucking die, you worthless piece of shit.