Comments on: VE Day, v.2

By: Kyle Mulka

Kyle Mulka — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 09:38:50 +0000

Yey! Thanks for the report!

By: Sylvain

Sylvain — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 15:20:05 +0000

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Yeah apparently most people in France wanted the games… well that’s what the media said.

I didn’t have my mind on that subject… London is close enough and I won’t have the burden anyway 😉
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By: david

david — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 14:54:14 +0000

It’s a first step, anyway. If the EU had approved software patents, the patents would have started to seem normal; the more other countries reject them, the more ammo opponents in the U.S. have.

It’s funny that you mention the Olympics. I lived in Toronto a decade and a half ago when that city was bidding for the Olympics for the first time, and almost everyone I knew downtown was strongly opposed — people cheered when the city’s bid failed. I take it people in Paris actually wanted the games.

By: Sylvain

Sylvain — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 14:35:44 +0000

It’s funny because as a french I could have been only interested by the Olympics today but my concern was more avout software patent and this European parliement vote.

And to be honest, I don’t really mind Paris didn’t get the Olympics but I’m really happy the parliement rejected the law proposal.

Maybe there could be some pressure group in the USA to reverse the machine and get rid of the software patent right as well, although I might dream a bit too much there 🙂