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Dear Supporters of NoSoftwarePatents.com:
There is a group of large corporations that are willing to do almost
anything it takes to have software patents legalized in the EU. And those
have started a multi-million Euro lobbying effort to have their way.
On the one hand, we have some good points to make against software
patents, and decisions by various parliaments are quite helpful.
On the other hand, we can't win unless our concern over software
patents is fully understood to be a commercial issue as opposed
to "the dreamers vs. the businesses". Many members of the European
Parliament consider themselves pro-business, and some of them
unfortunately are under the false impression that it's exclusively
(or almost exclusively) the open-source community that is critical of
software patents.
We know that countless businesses are worried about software patents
but we have to prove it to the European Parliament. Generally speaking,
unless business put their money where their mouth is, they will be
much less likely to win.
Two of the current sponsors of NoSoftwarePatents.com today published
a Call to Action:
press release (HTML): http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=474
open letter (PDF): http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/docs/050321calltoaction.pdf
If you work for a company or know one that has a certain size
(it should at least have revenues in the millions of Euros,
preferably tens or hundreds of millions), and if you think that company
is potentially threatened by software patents, then please try to put
them in contact with us -- or tell us about them.
Please write, or ask them to write, to us by E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
May we also ask you to further spread this Call to Action within your
network of contacts. It would also help if you could submit postings on
this to popular Web sites (like slashdot, but there's many more) that
are read by IT industry decision-makers.
Thank you very much in advance.
Best regards,
Florian Mueller
Campaign Manager, NoSofwarePatents.com
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