As a response to the wind wave of last week, the new European Software Patent Act The drafter ARLENE MCCARTHY released a tough press release, "violently hit the opponents." Ms. McCarthy requires members of the European Parliament (MEP) of the European Parliament to discuss the members of the European Parliament in the Name of the British Labor Party and the entire European Parliament, and warned that they don't be misleaded by the "lie from other camps", don't be "threatened" The "Speaker" of the European Parliament introduced "dishonest, unstable" roads, and brings great risks to booming software industries. " This news release can be seen at http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/amcc0902/index.en.html.
The politicians began to talk about "honest" and "development of the software industry"; Open Source developers turned into the "speaker" of "lie", even "threatened" the European Parliament. In front of money, in the mouth of politicians, all incredible things are so successful.
Background: The European Parliament will recently voted to decide whether to pass the new software patent bill. The new patent law discards the provisions of the "Mathematical Algorithm, Formula, Solving Business Issues, Computer Procedures, etc." Once this bill passes, it is actually prohibited as a software development activity as a personal behavior (whether open source), because (1) The scope involved in certain patents will be extremely wide; (2) Personless cannot ensure that they do not fall into large Business patent trap.
Analysts believe that the new software patent bill will directly lead to a large number of Open Source software projects or even unsustainable, and will promote most of the small and medium-sized software companies to reduce R & D investment. The final result is a very few large number of large enterprises monopolia to most software development markets, and the development and innovation of the entire software industry suffered heavy. It is the interest in the European Software Patent Act, and the BSA is a hand-made gun -BSA is not satisfied with a few pirated users. They want to make further, deprive free software developers think, programming.
I remember that a friend said a word: You can do not care about politics, but politics will find you. Free people often forget the dictator forever, the French election is an example. The freely scattered programmers have been vigilant: Microsoft sells Windows how much money is not important; if they can successfully prohibit Open Source, this is important.
Please go to http://swpat.ffii.org/ Understand the details and development of the entire event, or you can go to http://petition.eurolinux.org/ The petitions initiated by Euro-Linux.
