Threat to FreeBSD in Europe?

[Colin Percival]

At 09:49 14/05/2004, Mark Ovens wrote:
>http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/05/13/1447225.shtml?tid=132&tid=150&tid=82

  FreeBSD is thriving in the US.  Suggesting that the EU adopting US-style
patent rules would threaten FreeBSD is consequently ironic at best.
  Free Software has been riding on the coat-tails of commercial software
for far too long, and this article is just an attempt by Mandrakesoft
to preserve their ability to do that.
  Wake up guys; if Free Software is going to succeed, it has to innovate
for itself.  And, whatever some people may think, looking at someone else's
wheel, building your own, and then giving it away for free does not
constitute innovation.

Colin Percival