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[ILUG] Patents Rejected!

[ILUG] Patents Rejected!

Ole Tange ole at tange.dk
Wed Jul 6 21:40:58 IST 2005


On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Niall Walsh wrote:

> During a long nights viewing of yesterday's debate I was impressed by
> just how much influence the FOSS community has had on this issue.  Our
> impact could be heard in virtually every speakers words.

Yep. I was quite amazed by the numbers of people saying Open Source
(whether they meant it good or bad). Also I was surprised to hear that
some of the MEPs actually understood the problem.

> Does anyone know yet who the 14 and 18 were?  Mr Crowley in there by any
> chance or does he speak the lines but not vote the vote?

A reliable source says 5 of the abstentions were from Denmark.


/Ole



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