Please help us to stop EU Agriculture Ministers from taking a dreadful step towards software patents

[Henk Elegeert]

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Dear FFII supporter,

  Please help us to stop EU Agriculture Ministers from
  taking a dreadful step towards software patents.

  This Tuesday the EU Ministers of Agriculture will
  be asked to vote through the Council's software patents
  directive text as an agenda A-item, without discussion,
  even though there no longer exists a qualified majority
  of countries in favour of it. [1]

  The Council text imposes unlimited patentability,
  with several layers of defences against any
  attempt at limitation. If this text text is adopted,
  it will be difficult to achieve a reasonable directive
  at a later stage of the co-decision procedure.

  Please help to make your Minister of Agriculture aware of
the  very real choice he/she has to make in the Agriculture
Council  on Tuesday.  Please place the

  Please place the

        Open Letter
        http://demo.ffii.org/letter.html

  or the

        Banner
        http://demo.ffii.org/banner.html

  on your most important web page(s).

  Add your support to the wiki page

     http://demo.ffii.org/support.php

  This also points to pages where you may share the contact
  addresses of your ministry and letters already faxed to
  ministers of agriculture and environment.

  If enough supporters participate, then the story will reach
  media and the news will spread. Your agricultural minister
then can
  be more easily convinced that his/her resistance is worth
  the effort.

  With kind regards,

  --
  Gérald Sédrati-Dinet, Jonas Maebe, Felix Klee, James Heald,
  Peter Gerwinski, Holger Blasum, Hartmut Pilch

  [1] http://kwiki.ffii.org/ConsRevers04En

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