John O Connell's Blog » free software http://cloudbooks.org/wp CloudBooks :: The Cloud and Netbooks Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:27:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Free Software To Become A Euro Election Issue – News – eWeekEurope.co.uk http://cloudbooks.org/wp/free-software-to-become-a-euro-election-issue-news-eweekeuropecouk/ http://cloudbooks.org/wp/free-software-to-become-a-euro-election-issue-news-eweekeuropecouk/#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 08:29:44 +0000 corkie http://cloudbooks.org/wp/?p=60 Free software could become an election issue in the forthcoming Euro polls on 4 June with a group promoting a pact to protect software from government interference. The Free Software Pact is calling on citizens and their any candidates standing as MEPs Members of the European Parliament to back free software as a way to build a free society. Around 375 million people will be eligible to vote for 736 MEPs which make laws and policies that apply across all member states. The Parliament has often considered rules that could jeopardise free software says the Pact group so citizens should ask candidates for their views on the issue and use the pact to “educate candidates”. “The European Parliament is the venue for crucial talks concerning free software including software patents interoperability and net neutrality ” says the pact in a statement . “It is therefore vital to show election candidates why they should support and sign the Free Software Pact.”

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