Knoppix site shut down due to the upcoming patent laws

Posted Aug 29, 2003 9:06 UTC (Fri) by erich (subscriber, #7127) [Link]

Knoppix ist just as closed down as gimp.org, gnome.org and kde.org have been. ;)
and my sites still are. There is always a hidden link to enter the real page.
Klaus has joined the online protest, just as many others have.
Just have a look at www.debian.org ;)
It would be very good if some companies such as SuSE would do a press release doubting the use of software patents. Well, if IBM would - being probably one of the biggest patent holders - state that software being not patentable in europe is "ok for them", they would do all of us a great favour...

The green party (at least the german representees) stated to me that they will vote against this patent resolution.
the CDUCSU fraction (german conservatives) states that they support the resolution (although they always claim they are supporting small and medium sized companies and innovation, they usually do support the real big companies, which probably pay money to them. :-( )
the Social Democrats - where McCarthy belongs to - are kind of divided. I got a reply from a german member of that group who is personally in disfavour of swpats, and said that there is a lot of dissense.

Well, no wonder i favour the greens... ;)