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MISTICA: Petition against Software Patent

From: Daniel Pimienta ([email protected])
Date: Fri Aug 29 2003 - 14:01:22 AST

>From: Bill McIver <[email protected]>
>To: WSIS CS Plenary <[email protected]>, [email protected],
> INFOSOC CPSR <[email protected]>,
> Pedro Mendizabal Simonetti <[email protected]>,
> [email protected], wsis-prep1 <[email protected]>,
> [email protected], iaaec <[email protected]>
>Subject: [wsis-prep1] Link for Petition -- European Software Patentability
>rules -- Sept
> 1 vote
>Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 23:32:56 -0400
>
>Information about this was posted earlier to some of these lists.
>Here is a direct link to the petition.
>
>Please consider signing the petition.
>
>* From Apache.org *
>
>On September 1st the European Commission is going to vote a revised
>version of the European Patentability rules. The proposed revision
>contains a set of serious challenges to Open Source development since
>regulation regarding software patents will be broadly extended and might
>forbid independent development of innovative (Open Source and not)
>software-based solutions.
>
>The European Open Source community is very concerned about the upcoming
>new regulation and has organized a demo protest for August 27, asking Open
>Source supporting sites to change their home pages to let everyone know
>what is going on at the European Parliament. The Apache Software
>Foundation has decided to support this initiative, and this is why you are
>seeing this page.
>
>For further information please see http://swpat.ffii.org and
>http://petition.eurolinux.org.
>WJM
>
>Bill McIver
>Assistant Professor
>School of Information Science and Policy
>University at Albany, State University of New York
>URL: http://www.albany.edu/~mciver

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