Now the European patent movement wants to change the law so as to legalise this practise. Programmers are to lose their freedom of expression and the copyright on their original work.
Citizens are to be barred from independently developping their preferred forms of communication.
It is continuously enlarging itself by exercising legislative power. Since the mid 90s it is granting patents on pure programming ideas even in Europe, where this contradicts the written law. It is hereby acting against the will of the information industry and causing harm to the economy and encroaching on the rights of citiziens and society. Within 2000 the Complex wants to legalise these encroachments as part of the European Commission's Community Patent project and thereby create a fait accompli which will be all but impossible to reverse for the next decades. The Software Patent Working Group of the FFII has a lot to do .