software patents revisited

Hi all,

Some politicians never learn: software patents in the EU are back on the
agenda again (in an even worse form), this time with the council of
ministers. All-nerd site slashdot has got a lot of interesting links.
(http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/10/1627239&mode=thread&tid=117&tid=155&tid=99)

Same as previous time, I suggest the Ozone database project join the
online demonstration. Software patents are a _very_ _bad_ thing; a lot
of people have already put the reasons why they are bad into words, so I
will refrain from that, also because I'm not that great a writer ;-).

Please all join in, tell all local, national and international
politicians you know in the EU we do not need stiffling legislation.

Cheers,
Leo

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