[Patents] 80000 signatures for software patent free Europe

[phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)]

The Eurolinux petition now has 80.000 signatures!

Eighty thousand persons have now signed the EuroLinux petition against
software patents:

        http://petition.eurolinux.org/

The petition will be sent to the European Parliament in end of june.
A second world wide petition is being prepared at:

        http://swpat.ffii.org/xatra/defl016/

The EuroLinux Alliance is also working on a thorough readthrough of
all the submissions of the hearing launched by the Commission in
October 2000. The purspose is to promote a serious debate about
software patents.  A lot of work is to be done and you can help.  See:

        http://swpat.ffii.org/vreji/papri/eukonsult00/

Two seminars are planned in July and October which will cover the
latest developements in the area and hopefully help to promote a
constructive debate and scientific research:

        http://swpat.ffii.org/penmi/linuxtag-2001/
        http://swpat.ffii.org/penmi/systems-2001/

The EuroLinux Alliance is an open coalition of commercial companies
and non-profit associations united to promote and protect a vigourous
European Software Culture based on Open Standards, Open Competition
and Open Source Software such as Linux.

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Hartmut Pilch                                         http://phm.ffii.org/
Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation      http://swpat.ffii.org/
80000 signatures against software patents       http://www.noepatents.org/