Florian Mueller, campaign manager of NoSoftwarePatents.com, a European
anti-software patenting effort, spoke harshly about IBM's pledge,
calling it "diversionary tactics."
The European Union (EU) has been considering adopting software patenting
practices. IBM - which holds about 40,000 worldwide patents - is among
the companies lobbying strongly for it to happen, according to Mueller.
Learn about Linux
Download Linux
Get Linux help
IBM pro swpatent lobbying in Europe
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 02, 2005 03:43 PMI've no first hand information, but looks like the free software guyes in Europe have a hard time fighting IBM pro software patents lobbyist...
<A HREF="http://www.techworld.com/applications/features/index.cfm?featureid=1128" title="techworld.com">From here</a techworld.com>:
#