No Lobbysts As Such – The Fight Against Sofware Patents in Europe

Florian Müller’s memoir-style book has been released under the Creative Commons license this month.

On 377 pages, Mueller tells the story of the legislative process that ended in July last year with a landslide vote of the European Parliament against a proposal for a software patent directive.
The book is now available on the Internet for download:
http://www.no-lobbyists-as-such.com/NoLobbyistsAsSuch.pdf
[ED: spotted on the planet mysql , is interesting that now Redhat fights against an patent pirrate FireStar for basically “accessing an database” ]

Data Generator 2005 for InterBase/Firebird ver. 2.2 released

EMS Data Generator for InterBase/Firebird

EMS Software Development company is pleased to announce Data Generator 2005 ver.2.2 – new version of the powerful utility for generating test data for Firebird and InterBase databases.

The opportunity to connect through SSH and HTTP tunnels has been added, new data generation options and speed improvements have been made in the latest program version.

You can download the latest version at: www.sqlmanager.net/products/ibfb/datagenerator/download

ANN: CopyCat Replication Suite version 1.04.2

Dear developers

Microtec is pleased to announce a new version of CopyCat, our Delphi /
C++Builder component set for database replication.

CopyCat can be used for integrating replication functionality into your
applications, or for making your own customized replicators, enabling
off-site database work, asynchronous work over slow connections,
automatic live backup, etc.

For information about CopyCat, see http://www.microtec.fr/copycat/cc

For a list of changes in the latest version, see
http://www.microtec.fr/copycat/cc/Support.htm

Best regards,
Jonathan Neve
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CopyTiger – advanced database replicator for Interbase/Firebird!
Web : http://www.microtec.fr/copycat/ct
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CopyCat – database replication components for Delphi/C++Builder!
Web : http://www.microtec.fr/copycat/cc

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