Andrew Savory wrote:
http://petition.eurolinux.org. You will be redirected automatically to this site homepage in 60 seconds (or you can reach it directly by clicking <a href="...">here</a>). ============================================================
also: <a href="...">Continue to the ASF home page.</a> ?
Well, this was actually thought out for more than just www.apache.org, in case other PMC (with the approval of the Board, I assume) decide to shut their TLP sites too (there is an ongoing proposal on the Cocoon PMC and I'll send one to the XML PMC in minutes). Was yours meant as an addition or as a modification?
Anyway, just in case the board gives the green light, attached is the (text corrected, thanks!) HTML page. It might need tweaks at the refresh meta and last link to adjust it to the correct index page. The img absolute link is on purpose, in case others want to apply this page to their TLP sites too.
Thanks for your support. I understand that switching the home page off is not an easy decision given the short advice, so I will understand if the ASF decides not to support this initiative. I'm confident, though, that having Apache as a supporter might help us european a lot figthing this troublesome new regulation.
Ciao,
-- Gianugo Rabellino Pro-netics s.r.l. - http://www.pro-netics.com Orixo, the XML business alliance - http://www.orixo.com (Now blogging at: http://blogs.cocoondev.org/gianugo/)Title: Protest against EU patents
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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 this site homepage in 60 seconds (or you can reach it directly by clicking here).
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