A global coalition of more than 80 software companies, associations and developers has declared the 24th of September to be the "World Day Against Software Patents". … A global petition asking to effectively stop software patents worldwide will be launched on 24 September 2008, together with specific additional requests for certain regions such as Europe, the United States or India. — read more
The Say No To Software Patent protest outside the Bangalore Town hall found favourable mention in the press. The event saw quite a gathering from various walks of life, scientists, teachers, students, IT professionals and activists joined in to show their support. Sujith Haridasan captures the event with his digital camera for all of us.
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After their last protest against the OOXML earlier this year the free software activists in IT city of Bangalore are planning to meet outside the city Town Hall to protest against the software patents on 23rd August, 2008 evening at 5:30 PM. I request you to distribute the press release of the event widely and be there to show your support.
