Hola a tothom: Estan fent una campanya per donar vots al fundador de la campanya NoSoftwarePatents.com, Florian Mueller, en una votació europea. Per participar (i poder llegir la informacvió en català, i no en anglès) cal anar a: http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ca/m/ev50/vote.html Sota hi ha el missatge original en anglès que he rebut. Fins aviat, Xavi -------- Missatge original -------- Assumpte: Please vote against software patents Data: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:19:49 +0000 (UTC) De: Norbert Bollow <[email protected]> A: [email protected] Dear Supporters of ThankPoland.info, By thanking the Polish government for its courageous intervention against software patents, you have already been very helpful (you may refer to http://wiki.ffii.org/Sejm050216En for details and some pictures of the "Thank Poland" ceremony which took place in Warsaw in February of this year, in the Polish Parliament, Sejm.) There is now a new and extremely similar opportunity to make a statement against software patents by taking a minute to fill out a simple Internet form. The founder of the NoSoftwarePatents.com campaign, Florian Mueller, is currently running in an Internet poll for the "European of the Year" against such celebrities as U2 frontman Bono and politicians like Schroeder, Merkel and Blair. For voting recommendations and further information, please click here: http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/ev50/vote.html When I was in Warsaw, I learned from Polish politicians that Florian's NoSoftwarePatents.com campaign website has had a significant impact among them. Two Polish politicians have told me personally that they had printed out information from NoSoftwarePatents.com and used it to inform other politicians about the issue. Florian, who had come to Warsaw for the "Thank Poland" ceremony, also played a key role during the press conference afterwards. In view of all this, I have no doubt that Florian deserves to win those "Campaigner of the Year" and "European of the Year" awards. There is a realistic chance that we can, by voting for him on the Internet, make him the new "European of the Year", which would demonstrate to politicians, the press and the public that software patents are highly unpopular. Hence, every vote for Florian is a strong vote for freedom from software patents. It is necessary to vote for one candidate in each of the ten categories. Florian is running in two of them, and there are also other categories in which we can support those who opposed software patents and vote against those who wanted to make software legally patentable in Europe. Best regards, Norbert Bollow P.S. Everyone can participate in this Internet poll, including non-Europeans. On the NoSoftwarePatents.com site, texts (and banners) are available in more than a dozen languages. You can also send emails to make friends aware of this Internet referendum. Today, five celebrities from the world of free and open-source software (Richard Stallman, Tim O'Reilly, Alan Cox, Rasmus Lerdorf and Monty Widenius) also called on their supporters to vote for Florian: http://www.ag-ip-news.com/GetArticle.asp?Art_ID=2254&lang=en -- ============================ Xavier de Pedro Puente Departament d'Ecologia Universitat de Barcelona Avda. Diagonal 645. 08028 Barcelona Tel. 93 4021508 // Fax. 93 4111438 [email protected] http://www.ub.edu/ecolo --- Grup pel Coneixement lliure a la UB http://gclub.ub.es Projecte UniWiki d'Innovació Docent http://uniwiki.ourproject.org