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Hello, as discussed with Derick on IRC, here is the news text about SWP voting /Georg <h1>Rasmus and friends ask for your vote against software patents</h1> <p> <a href="http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/ev50/index.html"><img src="http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/banners/ev50_90x40_4_en.jpg"></a> <p> In a <a href="http://www.ag-ip-news.com/GetArticle.asp?Art_ID=2254〈=en">press release</a>, Rasmus Lerdorf, Richard Stallman, Tim O'Reilly, Alan Cox and Monty Widenius jointly call for an Internet vote against software patents. Until 11 November, the worldwide public can participate in a poll for the EU's premier political awards, the "EV50 Europeans of the Year". This is a new opportunity to underscore the No Software Patents message in a way that politicians, the press and the public would notice. <p> The famous five have endorsed a <a href="http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/ev50/vote.html">set of voting recommendations</a> that rewards the opponents of software patents and penalizes pro-patent politicians. The FFII and NoSoftwarePatents.com also offer <a href="http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/ev50/banners.html">banners</a> and 14 different language versions of an <a href="http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/ev50/notify.html">email form</a> to spread the information -- Georg Richter, Senior Software Developer MySQL AB, www.mysql.com Are you MySQL certified? www.mysql.com/certification