[CLUE-Talk] Anyone see apache.org today?

[Sean LeBlanc]

This doesn't look too good:

 On September 1st the European Commission is going to vote a revised version
of the European Patentability rules. The proposed revision contains a set of
serious challenges to Open Source development since regulation regarding
software patents will be broadly extended and might forbid independent
development of innovative (Open Source and not) software-based solutions.

The European Open Source community is very concerned about the upcoming new
regulation and has organized a demo protest for August 27, asking Open
Source supporting sites to change their home pages to let everyone know what
is going on at the European Parliament. The Apache Software Foundation has
decided to support this initiative, and this is why you are seeing this
page.

For further information please see http://swpat.ffii.org and
http://petition.eurolinux.org. You will be redirected automatically to the
Apache homepage in 60 seconds (or continue on to www.apache.org). 

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