Software patents ...

[Mickael Suzenne]

Hi,
 
I write you aiming to propose a suggestion : why not adding a banner to the
website's welcome page in aim to protest and inform about the software
patent european directive.
 
It's a fight for freedom ;-) and much of european citizens and IT
professionals just don't know about this directive ! In France for example,
the press don't inform about this (it's a shame, cause previous french
government took directives for the use of open source and free software in
administration offices and education, has all this effort gone to the sewer
?).
 
Many of web sites aiming to support or in concern to open source software
have already modified their homepage ...
Why not *BSD relatives sites (officials ones more) don't have done this yet
? Everyone is concern about this directive from far or near point of view.
 
Anyway, thanks for all the job done (special thanks to Stephane's
freebsd-fr.org team efforts). FreeBSD (and free *BSD in general) are the
proudness of a lot *NIX sysadmins cause of its robutness among other things
;-). Don't stop, we're all proud using the fruit of your great work.
 
Mickaël (France)