Get informed, think, and take action! The patents of sofware will destroy innovation... and most of all FREEDOM!
The patents of software will destroy the commons, public and social good... and most of all FREEDOM! The World Wide Web was created free for everyone to use based on FREE SOFWARE, to foster the commons, public and social good... and most of all FREEDOM! Netscape was the first WWW or Web browser, made free and based on FREE SOFWARE for everyone to use, to foster the commons, public and social good... and most of all FREEDOM! GNU was the first FREE SOFTWARE operative system platform, then Linux joined it: GNU/Linux, FREE SOFTWARE operative system platform is being used in more than 69 % of all the WWW servers all over in the Internet, to foster the commons, public and social good... and most of all FREEDOM! Nutch is a new Web Search Engine based on Free Software in order to create a new Internet Public Law to resist the oligopolic and monopolic practices of major Web Search Engines private companies and to foster the commons, public and social good... and most of all FREEDOM! http://www.nutch.org/docs/en/ Let's stop patenting of software! It is not only scietific and technological innovation being at stake and risk, but the whole world's commons, public and social good... and most of all FREEDOM! Patenting software will lead to a crossroads where even the authors and programmers of sofware WILL HAVE TO PAY ROYALTIES to the patenting oligopolies and monopolies in order to use THEIR OWN INTELLECTUAL efforts! Stop patents of software, what it is a stake is the coming of the DARKEST AGES of Human Intellectual Slavery! Get informed, think, and take action! The patents of sofware will destroy innovation... and most of all FREEDOM! The patents of software will destroy the commons, public and social good... and most of all FREEDOM! Communications, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom have more than SEVEN THOUSAND years slaved... it is about time for LIBERATION! Or when are we going to take consciousness and action, when the world dissappears due to the unbearable suffering inflicted by the privatizers and commoditizers of the birth, development and faith of the Cosmos? Zapopan Muela, Librarian http://mx.groups.yahoo.com/group/biblio-info-sociedad/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lib-info-society/ SwpatcninoEn http://kwiki.ffii.org/SwpatcninoEn This page is a freely editable addendum to http://swpat.ffii.org/log/news/index.en.html Simply click the Edit button or the edit symbol to add text! 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The wiki page should be named like Cons040129En, i.e. Stem+year+month+day+Language. 2004-06-18 US eWeek: FAT patent review threatening Linux foundation 2004-06-18 InternetNews on Acacia: Patent Wars Will Move to Wireless 2004-06-17 UK Court decision on pupil data managment patent, both sides claim victory 2004-06-17 US "Open Source Yoga Unity" contesting copyright claims on yoga method 2004-06-18 US Financial Review: IT execs lobby congress on education, piracy -- Microsoft's Steve Ballmer wants more money for the US Patent Office 2004-06-18 EU Intergovernmental Conference agrees on Constitution 2004-06-18 DE Next Week's Swpat Actions: Roundtable, Linuxtag, Karlsruhe Demo 2004-06-03 EP EPO patent examiners lose faith in patent quality 2004-06-17 UN WIPO Paper on "IPR, Innovation and SMEs" 2004-06-17 NL Ministry of Economy continues to misinform the Parliament 2004-06-16 US Acacia uses video data transmission patents for new series of lawsuits 2004-06-17 EU EDRI deplores losses for digital rights in EU elections 2004-06-03 NL Minutes of Parliamentary Discussion on Software Patents 2004-06-16 US Tim Berners-Lee: With SW-Patents and royalty fees WWW would not exist 2004-06-15 EP EPO upholds gene plant patent, Greenpeace: systematic violation of law 2004-06-14 UK Firm asserts patents on Internet downloading 2004-06-14 US New Research on Patent Thickets 2004-06-14 IE Interview with Ciaran O'Riordan of IFSO 2004-06-14 EU Short summary of Council Proposal Issues by Reinier Bakels 2004-06-14 US Patent donations to NGOs and Universities seen as tax loopholes 2004-06-13 EU Nobel-Prized Research Illustrates Why Embedded Software Needs to be Patent-Free 2004-06-13 EU Parliamentary Elections strengthen Camp of Software Patent Critics 2004-06-11 US Microsoft FAT patent will be re-examined 2004-06-13 US Oracle obtains patent on WCMS systems 2004-06-12 US IBM obtains patent on caps lock key status display 2004-06-10 DE Lessig warns of "IP McCarthyism" 2004-03-26 IT Patent Lawyer Association: EPO practise illegal, Microsoft and Linux on same side 2004-06-08 US Microsoft obtains patent on automated task lists 2004-06-09 DE WOS3 Moglen opening speech "Die Gedanken sind frei" 2004-06-08 EU ZDNet UK: Survey: European patents have quality problems 2004-06-10 US Newsforge: U.S. to EU on software patents: 'We sold out, you should too' (Slashdot follow-up) 2004-06-09 EU EICTA asks MEPs to follow the Council on software patents 2004-06-09 US Raymond: new Microsoft patent licensing program directed against Linux 2004-06-09 EU Dutch Presidency will not be sponsored 2004-06-09 EU Movie: Taking the magic out of the Council proposal 2004-06-07 UK Parliamentary Debate on Patents Bill, Labour MP criticises software patent policy 2004-06-08 EU Caricature: "We Only Want to Harmonise the Status Quo" 2004-06-08 UK Libdem MEPs want patents "only" for innovative software but "not as such" 2004-06-07 UK Blogger Aaron Curtis: software patents the dirt 2004-06-07 UK Bill Thompson(BBC): See you in the patents court 2004-06-07 UK The Register: statements from different M(E)Ps about the directive, cf UK Parties & EU Parties 2004-06-04 US SCO/Mason finds out: "What's common usage in software programming?" 2004-06-04 DK Minister defends Council "compromise" in Parliament 2004-06-04 EU Short Analysis of Council Deception Tactics 2004-06-03 NL Parliamentary Reservation on Council text 2004-06-03 US Perens: Open Source Call to Arms 2004-06-03 US Large companies unhappy about software patents 2004-06-03 EU Associations call for Reversal of Council Decision 2004-06-02 US Microsoft receives patent on "double click" 2004-05-25 CA EU bashing based on 'patents per capita' indicator 2004-05-28 EU Kari Tilli (FI): Commission's ICT research funding should be centered around patents 2004-06-04 NL Dutch council members under political fire 2004-06-02 US DotGNU: Mono too vulnerable to Microsoft's patent policy 2004-06-02 EU Slashdot: Tweak Your Representatives On Patents 2004-06-01 BE Stallman letter to The Register: Not just free software under threat 2004-05-16 FR Fourtou defends IPR bond purchase 2004-06-02 EU EDRI: IPR Enforcement Rapporteur Fourtou made millions on IPR 2004-06-02 EU "Campaign for Creativity" launches MEP spamming tool 2004-06-02 DE Social democrat IT & research policy expert protest letter to Justice Minister 2004-06-01 NL Employers Federation lies about Council Proposal 2004-06-01 US Network Associates granted broad antispam patent 2004-06-01 TW-SG-US Patent on 'Email-on-the-Move' 2004-06-01 EU MEP Hindrup (EDD) disappointed about answer from Monti on Software Patents 2004-06-01 DE Spiegel reports on DE maneuver in Council, Greens distance themselves 2004-05-.. 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