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European Parliament To Exclude Free Software With FRAND

Posted by Unknown on from the free-software-to-the-back-of-the-bus dept.

First time submitter jan.van.gent writes "The European Parliament is on the verge of adopting a directive reforming standards, reform which would introduce FRAND patent licensing terms, an undefined term which has been seen as a direct attack on the fundamental principles of Free and Open Source software. The Business Software Alliance has been very active trying to get FRAND terms into the directive."

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  1. Re:Trying to figure out who the good guys are by 0123456 · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is confusing.

    Actually, it's easy. All governments are bad guys.

    Well, maybe a few aren't, but if you start by assuming they're bad guys then you'll be pleasantly surprised if you turn out to be wrong.

  2. Re:Trying to figure out who the good guys are by ElKry · · Score: 4, Funny

    I keep looking for the words "feeb", "shadow" or "pathetic" in your post, but I can't find them. Surely there's some kind of mistake?

  3. Re:Trying to figure out who the good guys are by Runaway1956 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The alternative would be, "All governments are assholes."

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  4. Re:Trying to figure out who the good guys are by kdemetter · · Score: 5, Funny

    How about religions - any good ideas there?

    Mod parent down -1 Troll

    That's an interesting approach towards religions.

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