FFII and partners organised a successfull series of events in capitals of EU member states and elsewhere in order to raise awareness about the secret decisionmaking on software patents by national ministerial bureaucrats in the EU Council.
FFII and partners organised a successfull series of events in capitals of EU member states and elsewhere in order to raise awareness about the secret decisionmaking on software patents by national ministerial bureaucrats in the EU Council.
http://belug.de/~ms/demo_12.05.04.html
There are also instructions on how to make Dutch politicians more aware of this issue if you couldn't make it to the actual demonstration.
http://www.floating-point.nl/nopatents/
This article links twice to the London demo which never happened. I wonder how many of the other demos are listed but never happened?
We must not leave the software patents debate to the FFII. At least in the UK, FFII is unpopular and has offended people through clumsy wording and rejecting English help.
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