---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Seth Johnson seth.johnson@realmeasures.dyndns.org Date: Sep 28, 2005 5:45 PM

Please send congratulations to FFII and Nosoftwarepatents.com for their glorious work keeping software excluded from patentability in Europe!

Seth

http://www.cnetnetworks.co.uk/awards/2005_winners.html#contri_software

Outstanding Contribution to Software Development

Winner: NoSoftwarePatents.com & The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII)

NoSoftwarePatents.com and the FFII joined forces last year to campaign against the European software patent directive, which many feared would open the doors to an increasingly litigious marketplace in which small businesses would struggle to survive. In July this year, the European Parliament unexpectedly rejected the directive, a victory which can be attributed to the tireless work of this alliance.