Unbelievable how corporations are lobbying the European Union to death. After a lot of pressure by the people the European parliament said no to software patents last year. But the case is still hot. The European commission is preparing to force the Europeans to introduce patents on software.

Wouldn’t it feel good to escape the dictatorship of the lobbies and to show them that they cannot control everything like they want to?

Why don’t we show the lobby to go back to the place where they came from? I really do not want to wait until it is too late, to wait until the European commission just enforced the law. Let us show them that the people have a voice too. Let us organize ourselves now and demonstrate against this practice before bad things happened. Everyone who is interested but too lazy to follow the topic can drop me an email with his/her details wolfgang (@t) hafenscher (dot) net and I will inform him/her about the current situation and give him/her details about public demonstrations and other activities near his/her place.

I am not going to found any new organization but will rely solely on existing organizations. My goal is to be the interface to the existing organizations for those who are interested in the topic itself but do not have the time or the will to follow all the activities.

Get information about the whole case at http://swpat.ffii.org/
Some other background info at
http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/
http://www.truth50.com/

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