Date:  Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:51:05 -0500
From:  madodel <madodel at ptdprolog.net>
Subject:  [VOICENWS] Net: Software patents again, can I have your attention please

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From: Roderick Klein <rwkleinDESPAM at DESPAMmensys.nl>

Hello everybody,

In the past I have send out more emails about software patents,
Its simple software patents are bad. And in Europe there is a lobby from 
certain large companies that want to enforce there current position in the 
marketplace. In general for open source software such as Open Office, 
Firefox etc software patents are something which is not welcome...

All software patents I have read so far are worthless. Yet the government 
approved monopoly.
Especially when you live in Europe sign this petition:

http://stopsoftwarepatents.eu/

And if possible put a banner on your website. And yes from a legal point of 
view the lobby from ffii.org and others was successful in putting a break 
on software patents. The European patent office may have handed out 
software patents. However with current legal framework in the European 
Union they are hard if not impossible to enforce.

Thanks

Roderick Klein



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