European Open-Source Luminaries Appeal to EU Council Against Software Patents

European Open-Source Luminaries Appeal to EU Council Against Software Patents: “European Open-Source Luminaries Appeal to EU Council Against Software Patents
23 November 2004
Munich, Germany. The three most famous European authors of open-source software have issued an appeal against software patents on NoSoftwarePatents.com. Linus Torvalds (Linux), Michael Widenius (MySQL) and Rasmus Lerdorf (PHP) urge the EU Council, which will convene later in the week, not to adopt a draft directive on software patents that they consider ‘deceptive, dangerous, and democratically illegitimate’. They also call on the Internet community to express solidarity by placing NoSoftwarePatents.com links and banners on many Web sites.”