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Linus, Monty, Rasmus: No Software Patents

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stick-to-your-guns dept.

Jan Wildeboer writes "The three most famous European authors of open-source software have issued an appeal against software patents on NoSoftwarePatents.com. Linus Torvalds (Linux), Michael "Monty" Widenius (MySQL) and Rasmus Lerdorf (PHP) urge the EU Council, which will convene later in the week, not to adopt a draft directive on software patents that they consider "deceptive, dangerous, and democratically illegitimate". They also call on the Internet community to express solidarity by placing NoSoftwarePatents.com links and banners on many Web sites."

3 of 301 comments (clear)

  1. Fix the link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Geeze - preview people!

    It's
    http://NoSoftwarePatents.com

    NOT
    http://slashdot.org/NoSoftwarePatents.com

  2. Trolls troll... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    ...film at 11.

  3. Did anyone actually CLICK the link? by webword · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Um, the link in the posting is broken. Amazing that so many comments about it have already appeared.

    Broken! --> http://slashdot.org/NoSoftwarePatents.com

    Works! --> http://nosoftwarepatents.com

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