From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,52a0bacbcdd2da17 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-19 03:36:26 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!eusc.inter.net!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-duisburg.de!not-for-mail From: Georg Bauhaus Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Software Patent Concerns => New Black Markets? Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 10:36:25 +0000 (UTC) Organization: GMUGHDU Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de X-Trace: a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de 1061289385 27487 134.91.1.15 (19 Aug 2003 10:36:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 10:36:25 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.5.8-20010221 ("Blue Water") (UNIX) (HP-UX/B.11.00 (9000/831)) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41708 Date: 2003-08-19T10:36:25+00:00 List-Id: chris wrote: : Ludovic Brenta wrote: :> The Free Software Foundation is campaigning against software patents. :> The arguments are well known by now. : : And no one pays any attention to the FSF in Brussels or anywhere else : outside of the Open Source community. Their all or nothing fanaticism : makes it easy to dismiss them out of hand. I can't say that is true (not paying any attention) GnuPG is funded by an EU goverment. Some governments are seriously discussing and using open source software, including GPLed software. They do not want to depend on companies (read MS) or on developments in anyhing they cannot really influence, like US law. Georg