[wellylug] Fighting Software patents in europe + WellyLUG

[Chris Hodgetts]

Thats the point...  One day you will not be aloud to have fun with your 
OS, because you wont be aloud to use that OS, because it will come under
some company's control - or be outlawed, even if it's in Europe, where
does most Open Source code from from? - who is the biggest users of Open
Source...  If they  are not aloud to make it, use it - who will / who
can / whats the point if one of the worlds biggest markets wont be able
to use it.

This thread could have died a very fast death, if chosen to be ignored
by people, I after all chose to ignore your comments on Linux and why
you will never be a user of it again until it becomes more "User
Friendly" - and it died albeit slowly.

I put it out there, because it was not discussed, and a user, within a
users group, its concerning to me that one day I may wake up and have an
illegal OS sitting on my machines, all because some govt. says so.

There are many comments that die a quick death because no-one is able to
lend assistance to the problem and the thread dies away, never to return
and this could have happened to this post as well.

Some chose to turn it political -- I mealy posed a valid question that
is of concern to this Linux User, in a linux Users forum.



On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 15:09, Jamie Dobbs wrote:
> > Order, gentlemen, order :)
> >
> > I thought we had established that what consitutues a
> > user group widely varies in the perception of individual
> > members...
> 
> This is true, and this I believe will be what causes the group to split
> into two parts. One a bunch of geeks who want to share experiences, ideas,
> and have fun with an OS, the other consists of some of the former with a
> large dollop of over-zealous advocacy thrown in which I personally have
> absolutely no interest in.
> 
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