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dp

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From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

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NO ePATENTS

Petition for a Software Patent Free Europe:

you maybe realized, that a lot of sites on the net are "closed" ... some examples:
http://www.gimp.org/
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
http://www.debian.org/
http://www.gnome.org/

and some have notes like:
http://www.kde.org/
http://www.linux.se/

have a look at:

http://petition.eurolinux.org/
http://petition.eurolinux.org/signatures.html

maybe we put also something on the www.archlinux.org? (no need to close the site, but the banner is also something)

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dp

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From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

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Re: NO ePATENTS

here

http://petition.eurolinux.org/reference/examples.html

you can find some example-patents ...

A word processor which marks and makes correction to a document using two additional different colors. [#5,021,972].

want to start a new office-suite ... no correction using 2 colors is possible without this patent :-(

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