Software Patent Demonstrations Taking Off

feklee writes "The preparations for the rally against software patents on Wednesday are running at full speed. Thanks to announcements in DWN, on KDE, in the Register, and elsewhere, the Online Demo has already more than 600 participants such as Savannah and KDE.de. Now, what about your project?"

And flagboy writes "A group of economists from Europe and the U.S. specialising in patent questions have published a letter to members of the European Parliament calling on them to reject the proposal, accompanied by an analytical paper which casts severe doubts on the reasoning behind the directive and on the methods employed by its proponents." Here's the FFII Press Release.

Comments

Re:Patents are here to stay

[cliffy2000]

Let us not forget that Free (as in speech) is what we are still fighting for.
I don't know about you, but personally, I'm fighting for Free (as in beer) beer.

and slashdot does it's bit

[cnb]

by slashdotting the online demo site itself!

"We can show our concern by physical presence as well as by more or less gently blocking access to webpages in a concerted manner at certain times."

I think that was not quite the original intention

Re:will slashdot be gone tomorow?

[adpowers]

Of course /. will be down. They always practice what they preach, just look how they have adopted PNGs instead of GIFs!

Wiki....

[geekster]

Hmm... someone just deleted that long list of websites hope it wasn't me... A wiki doesn't seem to be the best tool for a list