On Sunday 31 August 2003 12:11, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > What exactly is going on with the European Union? Are they going to > shut mplayer down or what? Who's trying to stop them, if anybody?
Many sites are doing this right now as a protest. On September 1st, the plenary of the European Parliament will decide about a law proposal which would establish software patents in Europe. A group of economists from Europe and US specialising in patent questions have published a letter to members of the European Parliament calling them to reject the proposal, accompanied by an analytical paper which casts severe doubts on the reasoning behind the directive and on the methods employed by its proponents. Learn more here: http://swpat.ffii.org/ ******************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.2 Professional KDE 3.1.1 KMail 1.5.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ********************************************************
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