[Scottish] Fwd: [edlug] EU Software Patent Legislation: a real threat for Linux and Open Source

[Simon Yuill]

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> From: Denis Leslie <Denis.Leslie at tiscali.co.uk>
> Date: Fri May 14, 2004  11:16:41  am Europe/London
> To: edlug at lists.ed.ac.uk
> Subject: [edlug] EU Software Patent Legislation: a real threat for 
> Linux and Open Source
>
>
> Disturbing news for all who are concerned about software patents.
>
> "In direct contravention of the recent vote by the European Parliament
> to curtail Software Patents, the Irish Presidency of the European
> Union has surreptitiously reinstated unlimited software patent
> language into the text of a statement to be adopted by the European
> Council of Ministers on Monday May, 17th, without further debate!
> ...
> Please contact the media, your political representatives, and your
> government, and urge them to vote against unlimited Software Patents
> and to revert to the previous European Parliament position."
>
> Full articles at:
> http://lwn.net/Articles/85174/
> http://www.newsforge.com/software/04/05/13/1447225.shtml
>
> More information at: http://www.ffii.org/
>
> Find your MEPs contact details at http://www.europarl.org.uk/index.htm
> -- 
> Regards,
> Denis Leslie
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