[Apt-proxy-users] OT: Patenting software in europe -- decision on Jan 21

[Micha <ear...@gm...>]

Hello,

I dare to bother you and expect your flames with this OT since i personally=
 believe it's important enough for the future of any free software project.

The EU directive on the patentability of software takes another turn.
After a Council decision was impeded by the polish IT minister in december,=
 they intend to set it on the Fishery- and Agriculture meeting again, this =
time at 2004-01-21, as an A-Item which would mean adopting without any disc=
ussion. It's our opinion that for several reasons it must be decided as an =
B-Item instead, which would mean several important national parlament movem=
ents get a chance to be heared, and the whole thing will possibly be trashe=
d, or rewritten. In the recent version the preparating committees threw awa=
y any valuable amendments made by the Europarl last year, totally.
In case it gets through, the Europarlament will have a very difficult stand=
 at next stage to modify it once again.=20

Perhaps you have the opportunity to join the web-demo with a banner on your=
 homepage, or writing some mail to mulitpliers.=20

For more accurate information see: http://www.ffii.org
A collection of banners can be (hopefully) found starting at: http://demo.f=
fii.org.
The latest news use to appear on: http://kwiki.ffii.org/SwpatcninoEn

I should add this mail is merely my private action, not an official FFII mi=
ssion, although we  recommend to do so even if it sucks. We heavily depend =
on the participation of developers, users, and any internet community.


Greetings, mi.



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