[pp.int.general] Vienna meeting

[Wybo Wiersma]

> A big, big thanks to everybody who could come to Vienna, and to the 
> people arranging this great event!

Same here, many thanks and hurray to the Austrian, and all other
pirate parties that were involved!

> > Next time we should not let anyone drag us into discussing a red 
> > herring topic like software patents, the most irrelevant of all the 
> > irrelevant EU dossiers. We lost a whole afternoon of scarce -and thus 
> > valuable - time together.
>
> I tend to disagree here, and would like to explain further, as I think 
> too many pirates consider it nonimportant. What we call "software 
> patents" are not just patents on software, but also patents on business 
> methods that can be supported by software. Basically it is patents on 
> any idea that can be supported by, or implemented in, software. In the 

(Fully agree, although I don't think discussing this now and here is a
very good idea ;-)

Wybo

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