Rui Miguel Silva Seabra rms@1407.org wrote:
It isn't fair but that's what's happening. The majority of UK people voted for this government.
No, only 40.7% of UK voters (and some subjects are not permitted to vote, even if they are adults) voted for this government. It's a long way short of a majority of UK people. They are our elected representatives, though, and we must work with them to make them represent us.
MJ, are you from the UK? Who in the UK is raising the issue against software patents (very publicly)?
At the moment, the only people concerned with it that I am aware of are AFFS http://www.affs.org.uk/ and CDR http://uk.eurorights.org/ -- CDR don't like patents on their issues list yet, and AFFS is still young (expect a call for members Real Soon Now). I don't think this counts as "very publicly" yet. The more people who get involved with these two groups, the sooner it will.