The PA for Mr Nigel Farage (The South East UK Independence Party MEP) has weighed in with their response to my letter. As expected, it sides with the anti patent lobby, viewing the directive as a weapon for large multi-national companies rather than a shield for smaller providers. They claim to have already contacted the [...]
The reply of Dr Caroline Lucas of the Green party landed on my desk this morning, less than half a working day since I sent my letter (see Software patents within the EU). Post marked Sunday, the Greens must have a very efficient operation, and for this I commend them. Even better is the content [...]
For succinct programming wisdom withan amazingly high truth to soundbite ratio, I recommend reading some of the following Alan Perlis quotations.
“Intellectual property” is an area about which I feel strongly, and which I’m sure all programmers have opinions about. However, if you’re a developer within the EU who doesn’t have an opinion, you need to form one now. If you don’t, then the law will shortly be changed to make any you later choose moot. [...]
To my amazement, people are still using my old Decal plugin, Magellan 2. Hence, I have added it to my site again, at http://www.archgrove.co.uk/m2beta.zip. The PGP signature is available at http://www.archgrove.co.uk/m2beta.zip.sig. Feel free to mirror the file, but please mirror and advertise the signature with it. My software been bitten by the “fake mirror file” [...]
