[lbo-talk] japanese gvt and linux, software patents

[suzume at mx82.tiki.ne.jp]

> Welcome to this year's 28th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for
> the Debian community. This issue is a bit shorter (in text) than
> usually because Joey organised LinuxTag and hence didn't have time to
> produce DWN during the event. According to [1]Heise (German only) the
> salary management system for the Japanese government will be
> redesigned with GNU/Linux.
>
>  1. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-09.07.03-000/


> Decision on Software Patents in Europe. The European Parliament has
> [10]postponed the vote on the software patent directive back to the
> original date of 1st of September. Members of Parliament from all
> parties had complained that it was impossible to react adequately
> within a timeframe of 10 days. Many software professionals have been
> contacting their Members of Parliament in recent days and told them
> how software patents would hurt them.
>
>  10. http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/plen0626/