[Discussioni] EU Software Patent Legislation: a real threat for Linux and Open Source

[Giuseppe Levi]

cari amici vi inoltro un comunicato preuccupante ricevuto da mandrake.

Inizio del messaggio inoltrato:

> Da: Mandrakesoft Team <return a mandrakesoft.com>
> Data: 13 maggio 2004 11:42:14 CET
> A: giuseppe.levi a email.it
> Oggetto: Mandrakelinux NWL: EU Software Patent Legislation: a real 
> threat for Linux and Open Source
>
> Flash: EU Software Patent Legislation: a real threat for Linux and Open
> Source
>
> Mandrakesoft would like to alert all users and the software community 
> at
> large about a recent clandestine attack by proprietary interest 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, 17th, without further debate!
>
> The new text, if adopted, will extend Software Patents to every piece 
> of
> software, including computer programs, data structures, and process
> descriptions.  This will directly harm most software firms and all Open
> Source projects unable to pay patent licensing tribute, and amounts to
> an appropriation of the public domain by proprietary interests.  A
> direct beneficiary will be a new class of pure patent companies without
> any real business or contribution to employment, which will use the
> threat of litigation to extort payments.
> Of note is that a sponsor of the Irish Presidency is Microsoft,
> currently building a large patent portfolio.  If the Software Patent
> text is adopted, Microsoft may use this patent portfolio against Linux
> and other Open Source projects.
>
> Mandrakesoft would like to forewarn and mobilize its users and the
> software community about the very real threat of such a law.  Please
> contact the media, your political representatives, and your government,
> and urge them to vote against unlimited Software Patents and to revert
> to the previous European Parliament position.
>
> For further information please see the following links:
> http://swpat.ffii.org/journal/04/cons0507/index.en.html
> http://kwiki.ffii.org/SwpatcninoEn
>
> 	Mandrakesoft Online Team.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> The Mandrake Linux Community Newsletter is available in English, 
> French,
> German, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, and Russian. Please select the 
> following
> link to:
> * Request a different language for the next newsletter
> * Receive the next newsletter in a different format (plain text or 
> HTML)
> * Unsubscribe to the newsletter
> http://mandrake.com/cgi-bin/regnl.pl?em=giuseppe.levi%40email.it&ctr=u
>
-------------- parte successiva --------------
Un allegato non testuale è stato rimosso....
Nome:        non disponibile
Tipo:        text/enriched
Dimensione:  2948 bytes
Descrizione: non disponibile
URL:         <http://lists.softwarelibero.it/pipermail/discussioni/attachments/20040514/74adc990/attachment.bin>