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European Software Patent law REJECTED!

In a 648-14 vote (with 18 abstentions), the European Parliament has voted against the controversial 'Computer-implemented Inventions Directive' on its second reading.
EU lawmakers stated that software patents could limit innovation, cause difficulties for businesses and that human knowledge cannot be patented. This is a great win for open source advocates, many of whom have campaigned against the directive, and the EU Commission (which had drafted the bill) has no plans to produce a new version.

A great day for open source

 

[Martin]

Leave it up to those crazy socialist Europeans to support Communism. Did you know Linus Torvalds' father was a communist and visited the USSR often?

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: Martin
Leave it up to those crazy socialist Europeans to support Communism. Did you know Linus Torvalds' father was a communist and visited the USSR often?

hehe, is that true about his father? Kinda sounds like fud from one of those "AMD is what Hackers use" websites.

 

[Martin]

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: Martin
Leave it up to those crazy socialist Europeans to support Communism. Did you know Linus Torvalds' father was a communist and visited the USSR often?

hehe, is that true about his father? Kinda sounds like fud from one of those "AMD is what Hackers use" websites.

The post was a joke, but the father part is true. In fact, I seem to remember reading that Linus was somewhat influenced by that when he released his code under OS, but its been some time since I've read his biography, so I can't remember if it was like that or not.

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: Martin

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: Martin
Leave it up to those crazy socialist Europeans to support Communism. Did you know Linus Torvalds' father was a communist and visited the USSR often?

hehe, is that true about his father? Kinda sounds like fud from one of those "AMD is what Hackers use" websites.

The post was a joke, but the father part is true. In fact, I seem to remember reading that Linus was somewhat influenced by that when he released his code under OS, but its been some time since I've read his biography, so I can't remember if it was like that or not.

That's quite interesting. I could also see how he could be influenced that way and how this idea was born from that influence. I think it shows above all that even Communism as a philosophy has some merit and can lead to some unique solutions to problems.