Important notice FFII: Software Patents in Europe

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

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Important notice

  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. The 
Apache Software    Foundation has decided to support this initiative, 
and this is why you    are seeing this page.
For further information please see    http://swpat.ffii.org and 
http://petition.eurolinux.org.    You will be redirected automatically 
to the Apache homepage in 60 seconds    (or continue on to 
www.apache.org).
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