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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: [Off Topic] Software Patents
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 15:19:26 +0000 (UTC)
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For those Ada developers concerned about the EU proposals
on s/w patents, there is a petition available @

http://petition.eurolinux.org/

Apologies for those who don't find this 'on topic' enough.