City of Munich Freezes Its Linux Migration

Posted by timothy on Wednesday August 4, 2004 @12:41AM from the patently-something dept.

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."

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Re:...EU software patents? by tiger99 · 2004-08-04 04:37 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Yes, commissioners are appointed, and Tony B. Liar has just appointed a particularly vile, disgraceful and corrupt specimen, Peter Mandellson, with no regard whatsoever to his proven track record of corruption, which ensures that he had no future whatsoever in any democratically elected government. But, B. Liar owed him a few (in fact a lot) of favours.