Hi,
Sorry for cross-posting. Thought it may be still of interest:
http://noepatents.eu.org/index.php/NO_Software_Patents
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The Software Patents Directive, as approved by the European Council of
Ministers, would codify US-style Software Patents in the European Union.
If that happens, software developers will no longer own what they write
and can be sued for selling or distributing their own software.
If you don't inform your parliament, mega-corporations will do the job
for you: "The European Parliament is filled with lobbyists of Microsoft,
Eicta, CompTIA and so on. There are 30 to 40 lobbyists permanently
roaming the halls."
What you can do
1. Participate in the Web Strike until the vote
(http://noepatents.eu.org/index.php/Web_Demo_Against_Software_Patents)
2. Please send nice faxes or make phone calls to your representatives
in the European Parliament (http://www.ffii.org/~gibuskro/meplist/) and
ask them to follow the FFII voting recommendations
(http://europarl.ffii.org/amendments.en.html). You can also ask them to
follow the rapporter Rocard.
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Best,
Cristian
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