Could Maxima help protest against SWPats?

Hi,

something else:

I'm a member of the FFII (http://www.ffii.org) which is organizing a
demonstration and conference on August 27th (see the latest press
release at http://swpat.ffii.org/neues/03/demo0819/index.en.html). The
goal is to make people and MEPs (members of the European parliament)
aware of the dangers surrounding the legalization of software patents
that may be up for vote in the European Parliament as early as September
1st. The main part of the event will take place in Brussels. In addition
there will be an "online demonstration" whose idea is to simulate the
effects of Software Patents by shutting down web sites on August
27th (http://swpat.ffii.org/gruppe/demo/index.de.html).

Is there any chance that the Maxima project participates in this event?
Note that the Maxima web site doesn't need to be closed down completely.
On http://swpat.ffii.org/gruppe/demo/index.de.html there are several
examples on how it's possible to show ones concerns without taking such
drastic measures, but there's no need to stick to the examples.

Just as a quick reminder: Many trivial things (http://swpat.ffii.org/
patente) are already patented in the US and, in spite of the current
legislation, in the EU (see Art. 52 of the European Patent Convention).
I for one don't want to have software (and consequently algorithms) to
be legally patentable in Europe and fear that it will ultimately kill
the competitiveness of Free Software.

Felix

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