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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:00:29 +0100
:Revision: 		2
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Call for protest: Against software patents
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:Description:
    That's the original text of the announcement of Linus, Michael and Rasmus,
    which I pratly stole to quickly setup a protest webpage for the following
    2 days. All entries for my website (main, blog & gallery) now show that
    page by default. **If anyone likes to, please just download it and upload
    it to your website.** It should more or less work with any PHP driven site
    (using index.php as the index page).

Later this week, on November 25th and 26th, the EU Competitiveness Council
    will convene and soon attempt to formally adopt a proposed "Directive on
    the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions", commonly referred
    to as the "software patent directive". On May 18th, the Council reached
    political agreement on a draft legislation, however, did not take a formal
    decision to adopt it.

    We urge the governments of the EU member states, which are represented in
    the EU Council, to oppose the debateless adoption of the said proposal as
    a so-called "A item". In the interest of Europe, such a deceptive,
    dangerous and democratically illegitimate proposal must not become the
    Common Position of the member states.

That's the original text of the `announcement`__ of Linus, Michael and Rasmus,
which I pratly stole to quickly setup a `protest webpage`__ for the following
2 days. All entries for my website (`main`__, `blog`__ & `gallery`__) now show
that page by default. **If anyone likes to, please just download it and upload
it to your website.** It should more or less work with any PHP driven site
(using index.php as the index page).

.. __: http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/intro/app0411.html
.. __: /
.. __: http://www.schlitt.info
.. __: /applications/blog
.. __: /applications/gallery

In best hope for the next days...


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- wormus.com - Protest against software patents in Europe on Thu, 25 Nov 2004 08:27:07 +0100 in What's the Story?
  
  wormus.com - Protest against software patents in Europe

      Later this week, on November 25th and 26th, the EU Competitiveness
  Council will convene and soon attempt to formally adopt a proposed
  "Directive on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented...

- Call for protest: Against software patents -2- on Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:14:58 +0100 in Tobias Schlitt - Weblog
  
  I recently updated my anti software patents demo page (see here) in respect
  to the newest incidents.

  Brussels, wednesday 19th Jan 2005 -- The EU Software Patent Directive has
  been or will be scheduled on the agenda of the Agriculture and Fishery
  Meeting


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