Many of you are probably aware that the EU Council is trying to press through a draconian directive on EU software patents on Tuesday during a meeting of the Agriculture and Fisheries commision of all things.
Anyway - I just received from the FFII: > Dear FFII supporter [1], > > Please help us to stop EU Agriculture Ministers from > taking a dreadful step towards software patents. > > This Tuesday the EU Ministers of Agriculture will > be asked to vote through the Council's software patents > directive text as an agenda A-item, without discussion, > even though there no longer exists a qualified majority > of countries in favour of it. [2] > > The Council text imposes unlimited patentability, > with several layers of defences against any > attempt at limitation. If this text text is adopted, > it will be difficult to achieve a reasonable directive > at a later stage of the co-decision procedure. > > Please help to make your Minister of Agriculture aware of the > very real choice he/she has to make in the Agriculture Council > on Tuesday. Please place the > > Please place the > > Open Letter > http://demo.ffii.org/letter.html > > or the > > Banner > http://demo.ffii.org/banner.html > > on your most important web page(s). > > Add your support to the wiki page > > http://demo.ffii.org/support.php > > This also points to pages where you may share the contact > addresses of your ministry and letters already faxed to > ministers of agriculture and environment. > > If enough supporters participate, then the story will reach > media and the news will spread. Your agricultural minister then can > be more easily convinced that his/her resistance is worth > the effort. > > With kind regards, > > -- > Gérald Sédrati-Dinet, Jonas Maebe, Felix Klee, James Heald, > Peter Gerwinski, Holger Blasum, Hartmut Pilch > > [1] Login as dmartind in http://aktiv.ffii.org/ > [2] http://kwiki.ffii.org/ConsRevers04En If you feel that Software Patents in Europe are a bad thing (and / or we are being led up the garden path by the EU council) you can at least jot your name on the Wiki above to show support. Thanks (and sorry if it seems a bit spammy but I'm furious about this). _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
