Free July 6, 2005, Europa.
By Erik on May 27, 2007, Europa., 07:59 - Permalink
The day of the rejection of the software patents directive seems to be important enough to be mentioned in wikipedia's list of July 6, 2005 events. So I added a link to the EP's "Daily Notebook" which says "No directive on software patents", "Pas de brevet pour les logiciels", "Richtlinie zu Softwarepatenten abgelehnt" and "Europaparlamentet förkastar mjukvarupatentet" in my own language, etc.
Wikipedia has hosted a long discussion about what to call the directive (I made some comments in 2006), and it seems to still go on. What is at stake here is of course which terminology will be used in the history books of the future, so let's see if my entry survives the CII-zealots ;-)
Comments
Hi Erik!
Ah, now I understand the name of your blog... :-D
Regards from Berlin/Germany!
Cristof
(Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung - Working group on data retention)
Surely it should be free675, since this is a European event and the European date style is day-month-year. free765 uses US-style dates (month-day-year).
So the question is: why is this blog promoting US date standards? The ISO standard is year-month-day, so it should be free576 in fact.
I am not so sure that free765.eu is wrong, because even if it is a US-style date convention, it is nicer to say. If you were to say free567.eu or the free675, this would be difficult for people to remember. Maybe we could run a poll on which of this forms is best? Personally i would prefer freesoftwarepatents.com, the name is simple.
Anyhow, kudos to Eric for this blog, it is great fun.