Software patents - the decision and actions

Monday, July 4. 2005

Software patents - the decision and actions

Tomorrow there will be the (probably) last discussion about the EU directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions in the EU parliament in Straßbourg, the decision will be on wednesday. This is a very important decision for the future of the free software movement and software development at all.

I'll be at the protest actions in front of the parliament on both days. If you live nearby Straßbourg, consider to join us as well at 8h on both days.

noepatents.eu.org
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Update: There is also a web-demo for webmasters to replace their frontpage.

Another Update: Pictures from the demo in my gallery.
Posted by Hanno Böck in Copyright, English, Gentoo, Linux, Politics at 18:30 | Comments (0) | Trackback (1)

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