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European Protests Against Software Patents
On Wednesday, August 27th, there will be a last-minute demonstration
at the European Parliament in Brussels against the proposed directive
on software patents, organized by the FFII. As an additional (or
alternative) action, people and organizations are encouraged to
participate in an online demonstration that day, replacing the main
pages of their Web sites with text explaining the dangers of
introducing unlimited patentability in Europe.
The proposed directive would make it impossible to refuse patents on algorithms and business methods such as a recently-uncovered EPO patent granted to Amazon on ordering a gift for and automatically delivering it to a third party, which is even broader than its infamous 1-Click patent (which will also be patentable).
Please read the following pages for more information, and consider participating in the protest:
Software Patents Suck More!
There, done: http://siag.nu/ (http://siag.nu/) has joined the online demonstration.
join now!
slinux.net (http://slinux.net) has joined the online demonstration
joining de demonstration
http://www.polyxmass.org has joined the demonstration
Cheers,
Filippo Rusconi
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I closed my site and put an explication text about software patents you could find useful -- feel free to use it of course.
http://www.roard.com/docs/
(I typed it quickly, so tell me if I did errors ;-)
Pointless...
If you really want to demonstrate that you oppose to such
things, simply gather people to assist personally to the
proper place and protest with signs and banners at some
important place. It's not the concept of masses opossing
what helps here, but the concept of masses geting together.
I am completely sure that any well enough informed
profesional will oppose this, but if you dont fight it for real, it
wont work. So keep sitting in your comfortable chair, seeing
how your freedoms keep vanishing one by one in the hands
of lobbyst corporations.
pointless
pointless indeed,
do you think anyone care about you guys?
the people who have money are the one who decide
you can protest or whatever no one would even notice.
the europeans are revolting!
uphauling! disgusting!
sorry for the pun... couldn't help myself.
Re: pointless
> pointless indeed,
> do you think anyone care about you
> guys?
> the people who have money are the one
> who decide
> you can protest or whatever no one would
> even notice.
>
WE CARE ABOUT US!
We'll be there!
http://www.m16e.com
Somewhat joined =)
pomac.netswarm.net joined aswell, not that i have a lot of visitors, or run a high traffic site. I want to keep the momentum going though.
(not really closed, but large notice on all pages)
//pomac
Sync4j joins the protest
Sync4j (http://www.sync4j.org) joins the protest.
Re: pointless
> pointless indeed,
> do you think anyone care about you
> guys?
> the people who have money are the one
> who decide
> you can protest or whatever no one would
> even notice.
>
Yes, doing nothing is better. Sure. Let's not even open our mouths. You know what? Let's bend over too.
Even when I don't win the first battle, at least I won't have co-operated with a system/philosophy I think is flawed, and I would have lived up to what I believe in.
There are (and will always be) way more 'poor' people than rich ones, and it's only your apathy that gives this world to a select few.
Re: pointless
> pointless indeed,
> do you think anyone care about you
> guys?
> the people who have money are the one
> who decide
> you can protest or whatever no one would
> even notice.
>
I completley agree with you, only people who have money are the one who decide.
Any protest will be simply throw to the trash, no one listing to us.
No one will write a program legaly if that law come into life. There will be an underground of software programers who will write programs with ex. pop-up menu, beacuse someone will patent that idea.
Horror
(sorry, my English is'n good enought)
Update
What happened with this license issue? I haven't been able to get an update since? The EU has a nasty habit of going from "don't worry its all provisional" to "its all been discussed and agreed" without us getting a chance to comment in the middle
BozMo (http://catesfamily.org.uk/)
EU Software Patents
We are a website design company in the UK and all my employees are with it, im not im against it I think some stuff just gets out of hand like look at the blueberry case or that new one with MS & Autodesk ended up paying out think it was 15m for MS and 3m for autodesk as they have used an online registration application. What ever happened to the SCO / Linux dispute?...
All gets a bit too silly