[Am-info] URGENT Open Source alert for the EU!!!

[Fred Miller]

This is important and urget (we have 4 days to take action).  I quote:

   Mandrakesoft would like to alert all users and the software community at
   large about a recent clandestine attack by proprietary interests through
   covert adoption of EU Software Patent Legislation.

   In direct contravention of the recent vote by the European Parliament to
   curtail Software Patents, the Irish Presidency of the European Union has
   surreptitiously reinstated unlimited software patent language into the
   text of a statement to be adopted by the European Council of Ministers on
   Monday, May 17, without further debate!

Full article is below:

http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/05/13/1447225.shtml?tid=132&tid=150&tid=82


OpenOffice.org has a very strong presence in Europe.  PLEASE, to all our 
European members, contact your local representative about this.  As for 
everyone else, you can still contact the media.  Heck! contact European 
agencies!

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