[Gllug] (forw) [ian at fipr.org: FIPR Alert: FIPR-Bulletin: Richard Stallman speaking in London this Friday]

[SteveC]

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http://www.fipr.org/press/040517softpat.html

FIPR press release -- for immediate use (17 May 2004)

For further information, contact Ian Brown on 07970 164 526 or at
ian at fipr.org

WHAT: Richard Stallman to speak in London on software patents
WHERE: Lecture Theatre 1, Cruciform Building, UCL, Gower Street, London
WC1.
WHEN: 6-7pm, Friday 21 May 2004.

ORGANISED BY: The Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) in
association with the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure
(FFII) and Campaign for Digital Rights (CDR)

HOSTED BY: UCL Department of Computer Science

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FREE SOFTWARE GURU TO SPEAK IN FREE LONDON EVENT 21 MAY

World-renowned free software expert Richard Stallman is to speak this
Friday in central London on the ongoing battle over software patents.
Stallman, head of the Free Software Foundation, has recently been
working to preserve freedom in software design in China and India as
well as Europe and the US.

Software patents are extremely controversial in the US, where they have
been granted on simple software techniques such as "one-click shopping"
and cause many problems for small businesses and software developers.
The resulting reduction in innovation and competition has had serious
effects for all computer users. Over 33,000 Europeans have signed a
EuroLinux petition against software patents.

The EU's national governments are currently attempting to over-rule a
vote in the European Parliament that would have stopped such harmful
patents being granted in the EU. They are due to agree this week on a
proposal that would abandon the amendments made to the Software Patent
Directive by the Parliament last September.

Come and hear the latest news from the front line in the fight to
preserve software freedom and innovation!

Directions are available at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/about-ucl/location/;
nearest Tube stations are Warren Street and Euston. 



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