Software & Patents: Open Source Stars Oppose European Patent Directive
Ahead of a key meeting, Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, Monty Widenius, the CTO of MySQL, and Rasmus Lerdorf, the original author of the PHP scripting language, advertised as the three most famous European authors of open source software, have appealed to the EU Council to abandon the idea of patenting software.
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David commented on 1 Dec 2004
Let's hope the EU doesn't follow the broken US model. The US model had worked well until big money allowed process patents, something that was not allowed until recently.
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3 Musketeers commented on 29 Nov 2004
When Linus, Monty, and Rasmus all agree about something like this it is hard not to want to support their conclusion.
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