From kde-devel  Thu Aug 21 16:31:50 2003
From: Christophe Devriese <oelewapperke () ulyssis ! org>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 16:31:50 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Software patent protest, could kde participate ?
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The FFII is organizing an online demonstration against software patents. We 
want you to replace the title page of your project's site with a protest page 
against software patents (for examples see below) on August 27th. If you 
don't want to block access to your site you can for example put a small link 
on the protest page as seen in one of the examples. 

The idea is that with software patents many sites running on/serving possibly 
patent infringing software (read: most free software) have to go offline 
sooner or later. So why not demonstrate this effect before it's too late? 

http://swpat.ffii.org/
http://swpat.ffii.org/group/demo/index.en.html

I think this really matters to kde, as sooner or later software patents will 
be used against kde. We should do what we can to support this demonstration.

Oelewapperke

 
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