NO Software Patents in Europe

Submitted by badlop on Thu, 04/08/2004 - 15:22

10 days of web strike Vs 20 years of patent nightmare

We are protesting against software patents in Europe.

Most software will become href="http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/europarl0309/cons0401/index.en.html">illegal
to use in Europe if this dangerous directive is adopted without proper
amending.

The href="http://swpat.ffii.org/players/bolkestein/index.en.html">Commission
and the href="http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/europarl0309/cons0401/index.en.html">Council
of Ministers are covertly pushing for unlimited patentability of software,
heavily lobbied by multinationals and patent lawyers.
They are ignoring the href="http://www3.europarl.eu.int/omk/omnsapir.so/pv2?PRG=CALDOC&FILE=20030924&LANGUE=EN&TPV=DEF&LASTCHAP=31&SDOCTA=2&TXTLST=2&Type_Doc=ANNEX&POS=1">democratically voted decision of the European
Parliament from 24 september 2003, which has the support of more than href="http://petition.eurolinux.org">300.000 citizens, href="http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eubsa-swpat0202/ceapme0309/index.en.html">2.000.000
SMEs, dozens of href="http://www.researchineurope.org/policy/patentdirltr.htm">economists

and href="http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eubsa-swpat0202/komp0305/index.en.html">scientists.

Join us in a demonstration in the streets of href="http://wiki.ael.be/index.php/Demo14and15april">Brussels on 14 april
2004.

Join this online protest by changing your homepage href="http://demo.ffii.org">from 5 until 15 april.

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