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Dear xxx,

You recently signed a letter to abolish software patents in Australia.
We've just sent the letter to Senator Kim Carr along with 1000
signatures. Congratulations and thanks to everyone who supported the
letter!

As promised, we won't email you again. If you'd like to continue
receiving updates (including the government's response to the letter),
please visit the following link.

Receive updates:
http://apps.softwarefreedom.com.au/patents/1023/29762be/

Support for the letter has been amazing. Over 90% of the 1000
signatories work or study in the software industry. This included more
than 40 CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, MDs, Directors and Presidents of Australian
software companies.

Government agencies are currently in "caretaker" mode, so they can't
respond to our letter until after the election. Once they do, we'll
try to arrange a meeting with the relevant minister's office.

Abolishing software patents won't be an easy win. As you may know, we
missed an important opportunity to make submissions to the patents
review in 2008. Also, a number of large corporations enjoy the
benefits of the imbalance in the patent system. They will be actively
working to retain this imbalance.

We're confident though, that with your continued support we will see
software patents abolished. Although the change may take a few years,
you've helped us to make a great start.

Thanks go to Alex Fraser and Ciarán O'Riordan who helped make this
letter possible.

Regards,

Ben


More signatures please
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We're continuing to collect signatures on the letter, and will post
off each batch of 100 we receive. Please talk to your friends,
colleagues, managers and CEO/Director/President about supporting the
letter.

The letter:
http://apps.softwarefreedom.com.au/patents/


Join the discussion on software patents
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To participate in discussion on this issue, join the low-traffic
australia-public-discuss mailing list hosted by the End Software
Patents project.

Discussion mailing list:
http://lists.endsoftwarepatents.org/mailman/listinfo/australia-public-discuss


Come to Software Freedom Day
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Software Freedom Day is on Saturday 18 September. Many groups all
around Australia will be holding an event featuring interesting talks
and activities.

List of Software Freedom Day events:
http://www.sfd.org.au/