[wilhelmtux-discussion] Interesting Tidbits from Debian Weekly News...

Robert Ribnitz robert.ribnitz at unifr.ch
Mit Jun 25 15:42:36 CEST 2003


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Debian Weekly News
http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2003/25/
Debian Weekly News - June 24th, 2003
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Open Source and Mayor Election. This Wired news [34]story tells us
about a candidate for Mayor of [35]Zaragoza, Spain, who is using the
benefits of open source development as his platform for the election.
Handing out copies of [36]Augustux a Debian based distribution, and
talking about free wireless Internet access for all, Belloch can
clearly explain how free and open technologies can be translated into
opportunities, political participation, economic growth and social
welfare, with hard numbers and real details.

 34. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,58764,00.html
 35. http://www.ayto-zaragoza.es/
 36. http://www.zaralinux.org/proy/augustux/

Software Patents in Europe. Wookey [37]reported about the current
status of Software Patents in Europe. Recently there has been a vote
by the JURI committee which essentially allows complete patentability
of software. There have been no significant provisions to help Free
Software or reduce the effect on small businesses. The issue is very
urgent! Wookey continues with a report about the conference about
software patents in Brussels from May 5th to 7th.

 37. http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu-0306/msg00259.html

Greets

Robert