Please, do what you like with it. All ideas are universal property in my view. Maurice
-----Original Message----- From: Simon Morris [mailto:mozrat@gmail.com] Sent: 18 March 2005 01:23
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 12:44:57 -0000, Maurice McCarthy Maurice.McCarthy@bluewater.com wrote:
Software is an art-form and therefore it could be against the European and United Nations Charters of Human Rights to
patent software.
This is on the grounds of an infringement of the right of
free expression.
These Charters exceed the authority of TRIPS and so the case
may be arguable
all the way to the European Court of Justice. This justifies my media strategy of addressing cultural institutions to lobby their
support in the
struggle against the swpat directive.
[snip excellent prose on Open Source]
Thats a great piece there.
Is it Creative Commons? Can I blog it?
~sm