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Demonstration Against Software Patents in Europe
bram.be writes "On April 14, FFII is organising a
walking demonstration in
Brussels against the legalisation of software patents in Europe, as
well as a legislation
benchmarking conference. Like in August last year, these events will be accompanied by an
online demonstration whereby webmasters are asked to close their websites
in protest. The reason for the renewed protest is that after the
European Parliament voted for a
great directive, it
is now the Council of Minister's turn, whose working party proposes as
'compromise' to simply discard all good amendments and on top of that to
even make program publication an infringement. Already more then 1300 sites participate in the online demonstration. Among them are some big sites like KDE, the GNU Project and the Gimp. Also, on April 15 the European
Greens/EFA group is organising a Euro-LUG
party inside the European Parliament, 'with a view to enhance the
networking among the free software community in Europe [...], to inform
the EP about what free software is, how it works and which ideas lie
behind.' Speakers will include Gwen Hinze (EFF), Jon Lech Johansen
(DeCSS), Georg Greve (FSF Europe and Alan Cox. Prior
registration is mandatory for this event."
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Smaller, inventing business goes OUT of business. Which is why they have /patents/ on the software they create.
Bullshit.
These morons are a clueless bunch of losers.
Don't sign the petition!
Socialists march on Europe.
Good frief fella. We're talking about Software patents and your "...distressed at the world my son will grow up in..." - get a life. Seriously. Go outside, smell the flowers, gaze at the clouds in the sky. Software patents dim into obscurity compared with the important things in life. And to answer your questions: "Isn't the government supposed to be working for us? " - of course, it's your government. Don't like it, vote a new one in. But don't whine about corporate dynasties or other conspiracies.
Rich people are eccentric. Poor people are strange. Me, I'd be happy with odd.
Reading the comments on this site, it sounds like what most people are really opposed to is frivolous patents rather than patents on software, even though they are targeting their opposition to software patents.
It's like the people who argue to make it harder to issue a speeding ticket when their real gripe is the fact that most speed limits are unreasonably low.
Software patents are good things. It's the fact that frivolous patents are awarded that are too expensive to contest that is the real problem here.
Mmmm.. Donuts
That's mostly because open source is not innovative. Usually what we see is gnu bigots prefer to copy ideas from other companies. They even steal code from leaked windows source code or Unix (SCO). THen they attack these corporations. I don't see why people should agree with you. clearly GPL is on the losing side.
To put this into perspective for US readers, Brussels is two hours from London by train.
And if you thought that was boring you obviously havn't read my Journal ;-)