Massive Munich Linux Project Grinds To A Halt

KingFishKingFish
edited August 2004 in Science & Tech
One of the open source community's flagship projects has ground to a halt because the City of Munich is afraid it might breach 50 patents as a result of the European software directives.
Last week we reported that MySQL advisor Florian Mueller warned that the plans to introduce 14,000 base clients could be in jeopardy because the city's CIO feared the consequences of the EU software patent directives. And according to today's c't magazine, that's what's happened. A local Green Party alderman filed a motion in the city last week asking the federal German government to urgently investigate the implications of the EU patent rulings.
Source: The Inquirer
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