[scribus] September 24 is World Day Against Software Patents

[Frank Swygert]

I was all ready to post an opposing view, as my first thought was this was against "closed source" software. Glad I read the link first! Great idea -- copyright should cover and protect software anyway, patents aren't necessary and do stifle development. 

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Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 09:04:12 -0400
From: "Louis Desjardins" <louis.desjardins at gmail.com>

I believe people on the list be interested by the following action. There is
lots to read on that website so I won't add a word!

http://stopsoftwarepatents.org/petition

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