The Software Patents Directive, as approved by the European Council of Ministers, would codify US-style Software Patents in the European Union.
If that happens, software developers will no longer own what they write and can be sued for selling or distributing their own software.
It’s really hard to understand as a web developer that how can they even consider something like this.
Here is a couple of very intresting GUI updates for GNOME.
Luminocity is a 3-D window manager using Open GL with effects like warping windows and alpha compositing. Cairo is an antialiased font and stroke renderer that makes GNOME look better on the screen. Seth Nickell’s blog
has some videos demonstrating these features.
Koders.com is the web’s largest search engine for identifying and accessing open source that developers can leverage in their own applications. Koders.com is currently indexing hundreds of thousands lines of code from thousands projects in hundreds of open source repositories, including SourceForge, Novell Forge, Apache, Mozilla and others.
Koders.com is the first free tool of its kind to allow developers to easily navigate the fragmented landscape of OSS code that is hidden away in repositories that your standard consumer-oriented search engines cannot index.
Damn, I am again under attack of comment spammers. Soon I will need to close comments here. 
I wish I would know who does this spamming.
Software patents threaten to devastate computer industry everwhere in a world. I found article of The League for Programming Freedom from MIT writing in Against User Interface Copyright how companies like Microsoft and Apple tries to sue and extort other companies because of “Look and Feel” in computer systems.
