Re: [Fsfe-uk] Munich, swpat and Linux - possible in UK

[Tom Chance]

On Thursday 05 Aug 2004 09:41, Alex Hudson wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 02:00 +0100, Tom Chance wrote:
> > After the recent news about the Green Party stirring the city of Munich
> > into anti-software patent action [1], it made me think: would this be
> > remotely possible in the UK?
>
> Surely stopping the roll-out of Free Software because of some fear of
> software patents is mostly akin to cutting your nose off to spite your
> face? I can't think Munich's actions would be something we should try to
> replicate in this country.

Well in Munich the committment to Free Software has been sufficient to get the 
city of Munich to start lobbying the national Government about software 
patents. So I'm not asking if we can torpedo any Free Software deployments, 
but rather if there are any deployments with enough committment for the same 
to happen.

Regards,
Tom