Dear All, This is of interest to all of us, but particularly our New Zealand friends.
Regards CDR -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Peter Brown <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [FSF] New Zealand in urgent danger of software patents > Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:35:11 -0400 > > The director of the End Software Patents campaign Ciaran O'Riordan > writes to warn of an imminent threat of software patents in New Zealand: > > > Dear Free Software Supporters, > > The New Zealand government has proposed allowing unlimited software > patenting. They are accepting comments until July 2nd, but > participation from the people who will be harmed seems very low. > > The details of how to participate can be found on swpat.org: > http://en.swpat.org/wiki/New_Zealand > > Participation of the free software community is particularly important > because, although SME federations and consumer rights groups are > sometimes the most influential lobbies against software patents, it's > often the free software community that raises awareness of the issue and > gets these other groups moving. The July 2nd deadline is very close, so > work is needed now. > > We thus urge you to participate in the consultation, but also to raise > awareness on blogs, news sites, and among email groups, and to contact > related interest organisations and companies to ask them to get involved > too. > > Some other swpat.org pages that may be useful: > > http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Organising_a_campaign > http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Software_patents_harm_SMEs > http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Studies_on_economics_and_innovation > http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Harm_to_standards > > Ciaran O'Riordan > Director End Software Patents > Tel: +32 487 64 17 54 email: ciaran [at] fsf.org > > end. > _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
