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Originally posted by DryBaboon
Surely the great strength of the internet in the P2P era and open-source software development is that such OS distros etc etc will continue to be developed, distributed, and used unofficially ad infinitum, regardless of poncy Brussells legislation. |
I seriously doubt that! Many of the open source developers respect the laws or don't want to get into trouble with any companies.
Anyhow, this is a big hit for the open source world! There's nothing wrong with patents, but I feel this is just idiotic... this could lead to the end of OSS as we know it. Pretty strange that the European parlament got this idea, as they are advising OSS to many companies.
Besides all this, as a software developer, I feel deeply insulted...