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ZDNet UK: Software Patent Protest to Block Web Sites

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“More than 600 Web sites are to take part in an online protest
against a proposed European law on software patents, timed to
coincide with a real-life protest in Brussels on Wednesday.

“Those rallying against the proposal — including some of
Europe’s most prominent scientists and software businesses —
believe its current draft would open the door to the patenting of
software and business processes, effectively shutting out software
competition from small and medium-sized developers…

“Participating sites include a number of open-source
organisations, such as Linux desktop software project KDE and
Savannah, a hosting site for GNU software projects…”


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[Editor’s Note: A few of the particpating Linux and Free
Software sites are listed here. -BKP]

Apache

Debian

GNOME

KDE

Knoppix

Savannah

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