Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-community-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 10313 invoked from network); 28 Aug 2003 16:57:40 -0000 Received: from daedalus.apache.org (HELO apache.org) (208.185.179.12) by minotaur-2.apache.org with SMTP; 28 Aug 2003 16:57:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 37060 invoked by uid 500); 28 Aug 2003 16:50:32 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-community-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 36799 invoked by uid 500); 28 Aug 2003 16:50:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact community-help@apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Reply-To: community@apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list community@apache.org Received: (qmail 36658 invoked from network); 28 Aug 2003 16:50:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta01-svc.ntlworld.com) (62.253.162.41) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 28 Aug 2003 16:50:26 -0000 Received: from oscar ([81.100.206.62]) by mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.37 201-229-121-137-20020806) with ESMTP id <20030828165016.IHWD17074.mta01-svc.ntlworld.com@oscar> for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 17:50:16 +0100 Received: from savs (helo=localhost) by oscar with local-esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 19sPwe-0002lP-00 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 17:48:24 +0100 Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 17:48:24 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew Savory X-X-Sender: savs@oscar To: community@apache.org Subject: Re: EU Software Patents In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: Andrew Savory X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: minotaur-2.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Hi, On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Andrew Savory wrote: > Some of you may already be aware that on 1st September the European > parliament will vote [1] on the issue of software patents. > > [1] http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/plen0620/index.en.html Rumour has it that the McCarthy report [2] has been withdrawn from next week's European Parliament agenda. [2] http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eubsa-swpat0202/amccarthy0206/index.en.html I'd like to think it's at least in part thanks to our protests! Thanks everyone, Andrew. -- Andrew Savory Email: andrew@luminas.co.uk Managing Director Tel: +44 (0)870 741 6658 Luminas Internet Applications Fax: +44 (0)700 598 1135 Orixo alliance: http://www.orixo.com/ Web: www.luminas.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: community-unsubscribe@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: community-help@apache.org