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European Protests Against Software Patents
by Magnus Stalnacke, in Events - Mon, Aug 25th 2003 00:00 PDT

On Wednesday, August 27th, there will be a last-minute demonstration at the European Parliament in Brussels against the proposed directive on software patents, organized by the FFII. As an additional (or alternative) action, people and organizations are encouraged to participate in an online demonstration that day, replacing the main pages of their Web sites with text explaining the dangers of introducing unlimited patentability in Europe.

The proposed directive would make it impossible to refuse patents on algorithms and business methods such as a recently-uncovered EPO patent granted to Amazon on ordering a gift for and automatically delivering it to a third party, which is even broader than its infamous 1-Click patent (which will also be patentable).

Please read the following pages for more information, and consider participating in the protest:

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[»] EU Software Patents
by Website Design in Teesside - Apr 27th 2006 08:27:12

We are a website design company in the UK and all my employees are with it, im not im against it I think some stuff just gets out of hand like look at the blueberry case or that new one with MS & Autodesk ended up paying out think it was 15m for MS and 3m for autodesk as they have used an online registration application. What ever happened to the SCO / Linux dispute?...

All gets a bit too silly

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[»] Update
by BozMo - Jun 28th 2004 03:53:09

What happened with this license issue? I haven't been able to get an update since? The EU has a nasty habit of going from "don't worry its all provisional" to "its all been discussed and agreed" without us getting a chance to comment in the middle BozMo

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BozMo

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[»] Sync4j joins the protest
by Stefano Fornari - Aug 28th 2003 01:05:40

Sync4j joins the protest.

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[»] Somewhat joined =)
by Ian Kumlien - Aug 25th 2003 16:05:43

pomac.netswarm.net joined aswell, not that i have a lot of visitors, or run a high traffic site. I want to keep the momentum going though.

(not really closed, but large notice on all pages)
//pomac

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[»] the europeans are revolting!
by Elroy - Aug 25th 2003 13:26:50

uphauling! disgusting!

sorry for the pun... couldn't help myself.

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[»] pointless
by nakee - Aug 25th 2003 13:10:11

pointless indeed,
do you think anyone care about you guys?
the people who have money are the one who decide
you can protest or whatever no one would even notice.

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[»] Re: pointless
by Memória Persistente - Aug 25th 2003 14:47:49

> pointless indeed,
> do you think anyone care about you
> guys?
> the people who have money are the one
> who decide
> you can protest or whatever no one would
> even notice.
>
WE CARE ABOUT US!
We'll be there!

http://www.m16e.com

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[»] Re: pointless
by wouter - Aug 30th 2003 08:28:12

> pointless indeed,
> do you think anyone care about you
> guys?
> the people who have money are the one
> who decide
> you can protest or whatever no one would
> even notice.
>
Yes, doing nothing is better. Sure. Let's not even open our mouths. You know what? Let's bend over too.

Even when I don't win the first battle, at least I won't have co-operated with a system/philosophy I think is flawed, and I would have lived up to what I believe in.

There are (and will always be) way more 'poor' people than rich ones, and it's only your apathy that gives this world to a select few.

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[»] Re: pointless
by Kedzier - Sep 11th 2003 15:52:30

> pointless indeed,
> do you think anyone care about you
> guys?
> the people who have money are the one
> who decide
> you can protest or whatever no one would
> even notice.
>
I completley agree with you, only people who have money are the one who decide.
Any protest will be simply throw to the trash, no one listing to us.
No one will write a program legaly if that law come into life. There will be an underground of software programers who will write programs with ex. pop-up menu, beacuse someone will patent that idea.
Horror
(sorry, my English is'n good enought)

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Kedzier

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[»] Pointless...
by reduz - Aug 25th 2003 10:33:32

If you really want to demonstrate that you oppose to such
things, simply gather people to assist personally to the
proper place and protest with signs and banners at some
important place. It's not the concept of masses opossing
what helps here, but the concept of masses geting together.
I am completely sure that any well enough informed
profesional will oppose this, but if you dont fight it for real, it
wont work. So keep sitting in your comfortable chair, seeing
how your freedoms keep vanishing one by one in the hands
of lobbyst corporations.

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[»] Text
by Nicolas Roard - Aug 25th 2003 10:21:29

I closed my site and put an explication text about software patents you could find useful -- feel free to use it of course.

http://www.roard.com/docs/

(I typed it quickly, so tell me if I did errors ;-)

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-- Nicolas Roard

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[»] joining de demonstration
by filippo rusconi - Aug 25th 2003 06:11:59

http://www.polyxmass.org has joined the demonstration

Cheers,

Filippo Rusconi

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[»] join now!
by azote - Aug 25th 2003 06:08:06

slinux.net has joined the online demonstration

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[»] Software Patents Suck More!
by Ulric Eriksson - Aug 25th 2003 02:43:00

There, done: http://siag.nu/ has joined the online demonstration.

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