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Opinion: The courts need to recognize that in the information age, virtual privacy and physical privacy don't have the same boundaries.

In December 2004, the NetBSD Project released the feature-rich NetBSD 2.0. Even after such a masterpiece, developers kept working on improvements, new features, and new ports following the new development roadmap. Federico Biancuzzi recently interviewed them to find out what they are working on and how they plan to promote their project in the near future.

Open-source has gained so much momentum of late that one might ask where all the developers needed for these new projects are coming from.

The latest attempt by the EU Council to have its position on the EU directive for the patentability of "computer-implemented inventions" approved in the Council for Agriculture and Fisheries has left members of Parliament from the opposition dumbfounded.

It seems EU politicians want to push the directive through the Agriculture Council again. Let's hope the "Thank You Poland" campaign wasn't an early bird.

If you are interested in what's going on with the FreeBSD project, this is a must-read.

61 EU members of parliament from 13 countries lead by the Polish ex-prime minister Jerzy Buzek are demanding that the legislative process on the controversial directive on the patentability of "computer-implemented inventions" begin again from scratch.

"There are some people who are passionate about the differences between 'free software' and 'open source'," wrote Kevin Bedell earlier this year. But he was beginning to wonder if the difference matters, he added. "I think it's time to stop dividing the community using labels. We don't need different names for the same thing." Read the rest of his essay here, in the start of our end-of-year "Best of 2004" round-up of articles from LinuxWorld Magazine.