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From: PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>
To: <news@ffii.org>, <patents@aful.org>
Cc: <epo@mlist.austria.eu.net>, <intprop-l@topica.com>
Subject: UK Gov. favourable to free software (fwd)
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 16:46:07 +0200 (CEST)

The UK government wants to promote free software for use in the
administration and will require standards and open formats:

        http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-945784.html

At the same time, the UK government, represented by its patent office, is
continuing to lead the software patentability lobby in Europe:

        http://swpat.ffii.org/players/uk/

--
Hartmut Pilch, FFII & Eurolinux Alliance              tel. +49-89-12789608
Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation       http://swpat.ffii.org/
120,000 signatures against software patents      http://www.noepatents.org/

UK Gov. favourable to free software (fwd), PILCH Hartmut

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