Hi,
something else:
I'm a member of the FFII and we are organizing a demonstration on
August 27th (see the latest press release at
http://swpat.ffii.org/
neues/03/demo0819/index.en.html) to make people and MEPs (members of the
European parliament) aware of the dangers surrounding the legalization
of software patents that may be up for vote in the European Parliament
as early as September 1st. The main part of the demonstration will take
place in Brussels. In addition there will be an "online demonstration"
whose idea is to simulate the effects of Software Patents by shutting
down web sites on August 27th (
http://swpat.ffii.org/gruppe/demo/
index.de.html).
Is there any chance that the FVWM project participates in this event?
Note that the FVWM web site doesn't need to be closed down completely.
On
http://swpat.ffii.org/gruppe/demo/index.de.html there are several
examples on how it's possible to show ones concerns without taking such
drastic measures, but there's no need to stick to the examples.
Just as a quick reminder: Many trivial things are already patented in
the US such as tabbed palettes (
http://swpat.ffii.org/patente/
wirkungen/palette/index.en.html) which e.g. FVWMTabs is infringing upon.
I for one don't want to have the same situation in Europe and fear that
it will ultimately kill the competitiveness of Free Software. So this
protest is likely to be our last chance to somewhat influence the
decision making process.
Felix
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Received on Wed Aug 20 2003 - 13:11:23 BST