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Irish Open Source Groups Protest Software Patents
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Russell John
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2005-03-21 10:49 AM
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Irish open source advocates are doing their part to combat software patents in the European Union with a briefing document distributed just in time to give Ireland's 16 Members of European Parliament some light reading material over St. Patrick's Day.
The document, timed to reach MEPs on Wednesday, was created in response to members' own queries about the subject, said Barry O'Donovan, an open-source activist who helped draft the brief. It follows an e-mail-writing campaign by Irish academics and developers that began early last week, following the EU Council's official endorsement of the EU's controversial draft directive on software-related patents.
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