21 Feb
2008
21 Feb
'08
5:51 p.m.
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 6:44 AM, Craig Box <craig(a)dubculture.co.nz> wrote:
What does this mean? Time will tell, but the news sounds good for both business and Open Source developers. An interesting move! Hats off to the EU.
I agree that this is very significant and I too noticed the bit about the EU - we have a lot to thank them for I think. Microsoft would have needed to do this eventually but it probably sped things up 10 years. The biggest danger to open source now is patent trolls who own patents but no products so have nothing to worry about in suing. SCO has risen from the dead but are a rather harmless zombie I believe. -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/ Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz