Subject: [lib-info-society] Hungary: Action Required: NO to Council Software Patent Agreement

[ffii] 400 demonstrators demand
Hungarian No to Council Swpat Agreement

At

 http://kwiki.ffii.org/Budapest040824En

you can find some news from Hungary, whose patent
officials
voted YES to
the Council proposal in spite of their prime
ministers
contrary
instructions ("broken fax machine").

All major IT associations of the country have
given
statements against
software patents and against the Council
proposal, and
deliberations
within the government are expected later this or
early next
week.

Meanwhile our

Urgent Call
 http://swpat.ffii.org/letters/cons0406/

has nicely typeset appendices in various
languages. A
large number have
been delivered to governmental authorities in
particular in
France

 http://kwiki.ffii.org/LtrConsSendFr0406Fr

and other countries are gradually catching up.

In Germany the state television is currently
handling a
complaint of FFII

 http://swpat.ffii.org/news/04/zdf0824/

More news are found at

 http://kwiki.ffii.org/SwpatcninoEn

--
Hartmut Pilch, FFII & Eurolinux Alliance
tel.
+49-89-18979927
Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation

 http://swpat.ffii.org/
330,000 votes 3000 firms against software patents

 http://noepatents.org/

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