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Software Patents kill Innovation. Please make a contribution to the web strike.

This is in protest against attempts to legalise software patents in Europe.

For developers, investors and users alike, this directive would mean legal uncertainty: a patent minefield. With the current flood of trivial patents legalized, software innovation would become a dangerous enterprise in Europe.

The Council of Ministers is pushing for unlimited patentability of software, heavily lobbied by patent lawyers. Don't let them ignore the European Parliament's democratic decision of september 24 2003. The parliament's decision to limit software patentability has the support of more than 300.000 citizens, 2.000.000 SMEs and dozens of economists and scientists.

More info on software patents at FFII

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Just thought I'd mention it. I'm not really up to much at the moment although I did go to the cinema to watch The Cat In The Hat. It was an enjoyable hour or so. We went to Pizza Hut beforehand and experienced a very good service. The cinema used to be a Warner Cinema as it was at the Capitol Centre in Preston as you head towards Lostock Hall but now it is a Vue cinema.