Sorry to be spammy again but I'm still firmly of the belief that this is something that could affect FlightGear or any other FOSS in future.
The EU Council is once again pushing the patent bill back onto the A-List of the *Fisheries and Agriculture* meeting on Monday. This is *extremely* underhand and I am personally furious at such erosion of the democratic system in Europe. The Council has obviously realised that they could push this for a Monday meeting without having it discovered until the preceeding Friday making counteraction hard. From the FFII: >On Monday, software patents are likely to be passed by the >Fisheries and Agriculture Ministries. > >Dear FFII supporter [1], > >at the Agricultural Council's meeting next Monday, the >Software Patent Directive is likely to be inserted into the >list of agenda items in the last minute. The aim seems >to be to preempt ongoing efforts in the European >Parliament for a restart of the procedure. [2] > >Please write today to your minister of Agriculture, >Fisheries and other political representatives, >and ask to have the software patent directive taken off >the agenda. > >Usable argumentation can be found on the webdemo >page at > > http://www.ffii.org/index.en.html > >Kind regards, Felix Klee, Holger Blasum Please note, this method is being used (abused) to get an entirely unmoderated bill passed. If you are an EU Citizen and feel you want/need to help then please, at least sign the FFIIs protest letter: http://demo.ffii.org/cons0501/support_ltr.php Text of the letter: http://demo.ffii.org/cons0501/letter.html Many Thanks Dave Martin _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
