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24th September as a day against software patents – Debian support?

Saturday, August 30, 2008

According to the Slashdot article and the StopSoftwarePatents.org website itself and on Digg, the anti-software-patent activists are attempting a world-wide event on the 24th of September as a world-wide day against software patents. USA has them via a weird court ruling, Japan has them as well (not sure why), there have been efforts to force [...]

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It just came to me that if we accept the…

Saturday, December 24, 2005

It just came to me that if we accept the definition of “industry” (from the text of the software patent directive that EP had in first reading where it it was said) that industry basically is mass production of material goods, then there is no need for neither software industry not movie industry nor music [...]

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Okay, why this …

Saturday, October 8, 2005

Okay, why this, the fact that I had to talk a lot about my involvement with the anti-swpat campaign in EU on my my second Google job interview, and the fact that they have contacted me for a third phone interview (seemingly from a different department) seem to make my brain go *click*?

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SOFTWARE PATENTS REJECTED!!!!!

Wednesday, July 6, 2005

Hurrray!648 in favor (of rejection), 14 against, 18 abstentions

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June 30

Thursday, June 30, 2005

A slow start of a slow day – I broke my 5 am rule . I only woke up at 9:30. The breakfast hall had a lot of Russian tourists – you cann’t avoid them anywhere .Nothing FFIIish to do today – all Latvian MEPs are gone. For that reason I am in the FFII [...]

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June 29

Wednesday, June 29, 2005

I woke up at 5.00 local time without any alarm clocks! That is one hell of an accomplishment. Today I planned to visit (without prior notice) all Latvian MEPs. I had a small setback when I found out that most of them have the whole day busy at different group meeting and then all of [...]

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June 28

Tuesday, June 28, 2005

I arrived to Brussels, slept two hours on the plane. When to the FFII apartment to check the mail and forgot to change the clothes in the hotel. That’s why I had to go meet Latvian MEPs in jeans and shirt instead of the nice suit I had bought earlier.First I met with the assistant [...]

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Sleep disbalance

Tuesday, June 28, 2005

At this moment I’ve not slept for 46 hours. In two hours I will go to the airport to catch a plane to Brussels. In ten hours I will meet with three members of European Parlament that are very influential back in Latvia. My task will be to get them to spend a lot of [...]

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The Economic Majority Against Software Patents

Saturday, June 25, 2005

The Economic Majority Against Software Patents You only need a few minutes to submit a testimony against software patents – anyone can do that.

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Software patent situation

Thursday, June 23, 2005

For those that do not know yet, I am closely involved with FFII in fighting against software patents in EU. Yesterday there was a vote in the JURI committee of the European Parliament. Out of 10 critical amendments – 5 were accepted, so it is not a complete failure as some media portray it to [...]

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