Changes in Europe, very important, please read
Date: Saturday, August 30 @ 12:00:00 CEST
Topic: General News


On September 1st the European Commission is going to vote a revised version of the European Patentability rules. The proposed revision contains a set of serious challenges to Open Source development since regulation regarding software patents will be broadly extended and might forbid independent development of innovative (Open Source and not) software-based solutions.

The European Open Source community is very concerned about the upcoming new regulation and has organized a demo protest for August 27, asking Open Source supporting sites to change their home pages to let everyone know what is going on at the European Parliament.

For further information please see http://swpat.ffii.org and http://petition.eurolinux.org.





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