[Dynapi-Dev] Fw: action week against EU software patent plans

[Leif W <war...@us...>]

Here's something that may be of interest especially to the European
contributors interested in the continuation of free software projects such
as the DynAPI.  At the very least, go sign this protest petition, regardless
of nationality.

Protest against Software Patents at following URL :
    http://petition.eurolinux.org/index_html?LANG=en

Leif

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Subject: [users@httpd] action week against EU software patent plans


> Hello Linux supporters!
>
> Surely you know the deadly danger imposed on free software by software
> patents. Under the influence of the patent lobby, the European Parliament
is
> about to pass a directive allowing extremely broad software
patentability -- 
> harming not only GNU/Linux and free software in general, but also imposing
> danger on every programmer, web publisher, computer user, and severly
> demaging the European economy.
>
> For more info, please take a look at
>
>      http://www.debian.org/
>      http://www.knoppix.org/
>      http://swpat.ffii.org/
>
> Protest against Software Patents at following URL :
>    http://petition.eurolinux.org/index_html?LANG=en
>
>
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