[WSIS CS-Plenary] Sept 1 vote postponed

[Fullsack Jean-Louis]

Hi Bill

Just to tell you that the debate at the European parliament scheduled on
September 1st at Strasbourg, has been postponed to september 22nd ... at
Brussels.
I don't know if this decision is due to my presence as a regular attendee at
EP debates at Strasbourg ...

Greetings
Jean-Louis Fullsack
Strasbourg-France

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Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 5:32 AM
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Link for Petition -- European Software
Patentability rules -- Sept 1 vote


>
> -- 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
>
> --
>
> 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
>
>
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