EU Software Patents

[Jeff Davies]

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