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FLOSSE Posse gear up for a software patent fightCreated by Stuart Yeates (University of Oxford) on November 17, 2005
FLOSSE Posse gear up for a software patent fight
The FLOSSE Posse has started organising to oppose a second EU software patents directive (directives are effectively templates for pan-European law). It is widely believed that a second software patent directive is being prepared by the European Patent Office. If a directive is in preparation, they have certainly failed to consult with the multitude who registered their objections to the first directive. FLOSSE is of course an acronym for "Free, Libre, and Open Source Software in Education" and is run out of University of Joensuu in Finland. It is an education-specific daughter organisation of the well known Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) who led the EU-wide opposition to the first directive.
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I should have held off writing this until today since Hartmut Pilch and the rest of the FFII team have just publicised: http://wiki.ffii.org/Trilat051117En which provides strong evidence that the European Patent Office will create a new directive, since that's the only way it can implement the outcomes of such a conference.