[Envolution-devel] European Patentability Issue

[Scott K. <sc...@ki...>]

On September 1st the European Commission is going to vote a revised
version of the European Patentability rules. The proposed revision
contains a set of serious challenges to Open Source development since
regulation regarding software patents will be broadly extended and might
forbid independent development of innovative (Open Source and not)
software-based solutions. 

The European Open Source community is very concerned about the upcoming
new regulation and has organized a demo protest starting August 27,
asking Open Source supporting sites to change their home pages to let
everyone know what is going on at the European Parliament. The
Envolution Content Management System has decided to support this
initiative, and this is why you are seeing this page. 

For further information please see http://swpat.ffii.org and
http://petition.eurolinux.org. 


The Envolution CMS has demonstrated support for this protest by changing
it's homepage in conjunction with other Open Source projects such as the
Apache Foundation.

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