Re: Negotiating for using Royalty Free patents

[Ronald Bultje <rbultje ronald bitfreak net>]

Hi Alan & all,

On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Alan Cox wrote:
> Well if people in the UK actually voted maybe. All the main UK parties
> are pro-patent except the greens and related small country parties.
> OTOH 18% of UK citizens will bother to vote in the EU election so
> every open source developer who does is worth 5 people. So UK folks
> especially should get off their backsides and actually vote for free
> software even if they, like most UK citizens, think the EU should die.

Most people don't think the EU should die, and they have very good reasons
to believe so. the EU might have bad side effects, like being a serious
partner for corporate takeovers in patent-laws and so, but it also has
many good sides, like free tradings of goods and people (no visa required)
between EU countries.

The best way to attack this is still to contact your favourite political
party and tell them your opinion. The EU shouldn't die, I don't know what
makes you think such things. Don't kill the messenger.

Ronald