On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 16:45:18 +0000 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra rms@1407.org wrote:
What, that they legitimise Microsoft's software patents and FSF Europe stays quiet? Something should have been said.
We didn't exactly stay quiet, but we also don't want to think of this as a defeat for Free Software. It isn't -- it's a very good step forward. The only ones who seem to have an opposing view is the FFII.
But patents will likely be an issue in the future, so I hope that the FFII and the FSFE will find enough common ground then to work together (this shouldn't be very difficult, we agree on most point, and only seem to disagree in this instance about interpretation).