The free beer is going sour...
I don't consider myself a rabid open sourcer, but it seems the jist, particularly with the SCO example, is extortion by theat of lawsuit.
I'm just guessing you disagree though..
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A lot of people are going nuts over the unintended (Or intended? We know the major corporations control the council) consequences of this proposed law.
So I guess this claim that the EU socialist love Linux sooo much and pick on only poor littlemicrosoft is overblown right?
"The free beer is going sour..."
The free beer has aleady been drunk and we are on to the Ripple.
The intrinsic problem with thse lawsuits is that
1) bits are essentailly free, no matter how much you'd like to charge for them
2) any program can be duplicated
That's why I'm out of the intellectual property business, both in software and the book business (sold some books along the way, same problem).
So, when the dinosaurs saw their environment changing, they could either adapt (become birds) or stay big and bloated and die.
All this legislation will do is make money for lawyers.
European politicians are a__holes, and you're nuts.