[plug] revolting behaviour

[Bernd Felsche]

"Senectus ." <senectus at gmail.com> writes:
>This sort of bureaucracy makes me sick to the stomach.
>"Linux Kernel maintainer 'barred' from patents meeting
>Matt Loney
>ZDNet UK
>December 08, 2004, 16:25 GMT

>TalkBack: Now that the UK PTO's public meeting on software patents has
>been made public, software patent campaigners are up in arms at the
>invitation policy

>Alan Cox, sometime maintainer of the Linux kernel and well-known
>open-source advocate, is among those effectively persona non grata at
>the UK Patent and Trademarks Office (PTO) public meeting on software
>patents next week."

>http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39179895,00.htm

Are you sure that that's not the synopsis of an episode from Monty Python?
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