Fighting software patents in Europe

[Richard Stallman]

The European Commission has published a proposal to legalize software
patents and treat all "computer implementable" ideas as patentable.
This proposal was written for the European Commission by a patent
expert from the Business Software Alliance.  It ignores the opinions
of 100,000 signatories of the Eurolinux Petition for a Software Patent
Free Europe, the interests of most European software companies, and the
evidence of economic studies that software patents are harmful.

Please read the detailed analysis at

        http://swpat.ffii.org/vreji/papri/eubsa-swpat0202/

and help the FFII and the EuroLinux Alliance mobilize to turn this
defeat into a victory.