I am a C++/Java coder contracting to part of Xerox on a project for Nokia. I've been interested in GNU/Linux since 1991, and the free software world more recently.
I just saw on www.linuxtoday.com that all 20 EU member states had voted against software patents. Hopefully this is true, and the borg are banished for a couple of years at the very least. Any comments/news??
by the way, I've been contributing to the FCPU project discussions for some 2 years now (or so). As part of this, I have this idea to program (via an XML tree based editor) in XML. I already have some basic XML->Java source XSL going. The DTD can make UML or dataflow diagrams compulsary (or URI links to them), and by transforming using a different XSL, you should be able to get a func spec out of the code.
Any interest?
Jeff Davies