This website is mostly about Free software and the things I do with it. Free software is software with freedoms and is often zero-cost. It is often more reliable, more up-to-date and more bug-free than non-Free software. This website has been built using Free software (Drupal). Like the majority of the world's websites it is hosted using Free software (Apache). If you wish, you can view it with a Free web browser (eg Firefox) and run your computer with a Free operating system (eg Debian GNU/Linux).
I have placed a couple of articles [1] on the Untrammelled website that I wrote during the previous campaign against software patents in Europe, in the hope that they may still be useful.
The future of software patents in Europe is uncertain. The Software Patent Directive was rejected by the European Parliament on the 6th of July 2005, after seven years of campaigning by people in Free Software Foundation Europe and others [2]. But the issue has not gone away.