EU says no to annoying software patent protest pages
Posted by Matthew on Wednesday July 6, 2005 @05:56PM
from the thank-god-its-over dept.
Matthew writes: Linux and open source users are breathing a sigh of relief today after the EU has voted down software patents, thus eliminating the annoying home page software patent protest pages that end users would have to click through to get to the meat of a website.
Sites such as knoppix.com will now be free to remove their threats that they will shut down if software patents prevail, as soon as the site maintainers get the good news.