On 09/01/10 07:19, (Ted Harding) wrote:
ComputerWorldUK have an article describing the resurrection of the European Software Patents issue:
http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open- source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2721&blogid=14
There is a link therein to a petition, which you may wish to consider signing.
I read this when it was first sent, and took the "yet another patent petition" view and didn't bother following it.
Of-course that's what they're counting on - just because we've won the argument doesn't mean we can't stop winning it. So I have just signed up, and I'm writing this to urge anyone else who likewise skipped it having signed countless others before it to reconsider.