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

It's all mine!

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm going to copyright, trademark and patent every character of the enlish language alphapet. Fuck freedom, who need its when you've got stupidity!

wait wait...

[borgdows]

No need to a demo to impeach this.
I have a patent about "Method of delivering patents by a so-called patent office" !!!

If EU accepts patents, I will sue EU to pay me 1 BILLION EUROS by awarded patent!

This is great!

[Stephen Samuel]

I think I'm going to patent the process!