Meaningful vs. meaningless support from businesses
Meaningful vs. meaningless support from businesses
Posted Sep 30, 2010 12:50 UTC (Thu) by mjthayer (guest, #39183)In reply to: Meaningful vs. meaningless support from businesses by FlorianMueller
Parent article: Red Hat Responds to U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Request for Guidance on Bilski
> He said that in order for the conservative EPP group to be impressed, the anti-software-patent camp would have to bring to the European Parliament a group of middled-aged closed-source entrepreneurs with beards, bellies and glasses (obviously that visual part was just meant to illustrate the profile he had in mind, not to be taken literally) to speak out against software patents. In that case, a greater number of conservative politicians would be receptive to anti-software-patent arguments and be willing to rethink their positions.
Yes, you probably have a point there.