[WSIS CS-Plenary] Link for Petition -- European Software Patentability rules -- Sept 1 vote

[Bill McIver]

-- apologies for cross posts --

Information about this was posted earlier
to some of these lists.
Here is a direct link to the petition.

Please consider signing the petition.


* From Apache.org *

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 for 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 Apache Software 
Foundation 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.



WJM

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Bill McIver
Assistant Professor
School of Information Science and Policy
University at Albany, State University of New York
Albany, New York 12222
USA

e-mail: mciver at albany.edu
URL: http://www.albany.edu/~mciver