Patent Concerns Unlikely To Nix Munich Linux Plan

MonkeyDev writes "Yahoo is reporting that Munich is ready to move forward with plans to 'abandon Microsoft Windows in favor of upstart rival Linux. The council is expected to take a calculated risk and vote through the move, despite concerns about possible software patent infringements in the face of coming European Union legislation that caused months of delay.' Not everyone is excited about it. A software developer at MySQL claims 'Linux violates 283 U.S. software patents.' How does the Linux community respond to these claims?" (Florian Mueller, the MySQL developer mentioned, isn't opposed to Munich using Linux, though -- just the opposite.) Update: 09/29 02:22 GMT by T : Marten Mickos of MySQL AB writes with a correction: "Florian Müller is an independent software developer and entrepreneur. He is ALSO an advisor to MySQL AB but he does not work for the company. He is presently engaged in coordinating opposition against software patents in EU, and thereby doing all of us within free software and open source a great favour."

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Re:claims ?

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U.S. software patents maybe, but Germany doesn't need to enforce them. Fight back against the evil legislation. Germans can't be less intelligent than American politicians.

"The important question is: How many hands have I shaked?"

George W. Bush
October 23, 1999
Quoted by the New York Times. This was candidate Bush's response to a question about why he hadn't spent more time in New Hampshire.

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"There is madmen in the world, and there are terror."

George W. Bush
February 14, 2000
Comment reported by the Associated Press.

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"There is a lot of speculation and I guess there is going to continue to be a lot of speculation until the speculation ends."

George W. Bush
October 18, 1998
The Texas governor commenting on the possibility of his running for the presidency. Reported by the Austin American-Statesman.

Need I continue? Most Germans probably speak better English than Bush.