[Fsfe-newsfr-en] FSF France news 28/11/2001

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Hello.

Here are the news from FSF France on 28/11/2001.

News FSF France in text (see attachment for HTML with links) :
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||German Government and Software Patents                     ||
||25 November 2001. Various online newspapers loudly claim   ||
||that the German government is on the side of people who are||
||against software patents (yahoo, vnunet, zdnet etc.). It   ||
||turns out to be very misleading, as explained in the FFII  ||
||article on the subject. It is to be noted that the FFII    ||
||article is the only one to link to the actual statement.   ||
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||RMS week in Paris                                          ||
||24 November 2001. Richard Stallman came for a short visit  ||
||in Paris, from 20 to 23 November 2001. This document is not||
||a report. It is an outline of his activities and pointers  ||
||to the corresponding articles and reports.                 ||
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||ZDNet: Advocates against software patents go further       ||
||21 November 2001. This news, written in french, says that  ||
||many initiatives to reverse the tendency toward the        ||
||patentibility of software are launched by the Free Software||
||Foundation Europe. It cites the recent meeting between No?l||
||Mam?re (french deputy of the green party and candidate to  ||
||the presidential election) and Richard Stallman.           ||
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||Exceptional visit of Richard Stallman in Paris             ||
||19 November 2001. Richard M. Stallman, considered to be the||
||founder of the Free Software movement, founder and         ||
||president of the Free Software Foundation and initiator of ||
||the GNU project in 1983, will be in Paris during this week.||
||He will attend various events during his visit.            ||
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Regards,

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FSF France News

German Government and Software Patents
25 November 2001. Various online newspapers loudly claim that the German government is on the side of people who are against software patents (yahoo, vnunet, zdnet etc.). It turns out to be very misleading, as explained in the FFII article on the subject. It is to be noted that the FFII article is the only one to link to the actual statement.

RMS week in Paris
24 November 2001. Richard Stallman came for a short visit in Paris, from 20 to 23 November 2001. This document is not a report. It is an outline of his activities and pointers to the corresponding articles and reports.

ZDNet: Advocates against software patents go further
21 November 2001. This news, written in french, says that many initiatives to reverse the tendency toward the patentibility of software are launched by the Free Software Foundation Europe. It cites the recent meeting between No?l Mam?re (french deputy of the green party and candidate to the presidential election) and Richard Stallman.

Exceptional visit of Richard Stallman in Paris
19 November 2001. Richard M. Stallman, considered to be the founder of the Free Software movement, founder and president of the Free Software Foundation and initiator of the GNU project in 1983, will be in Paris during this week. He will attend various events during his visit.