This is important and urget (we have 4 days to take action). I quote: Mandrakesoft would like to alert all users and the software community at large about a recent clandestine attack by proprietary interests through covert adoption of EU Software Patent Legislation. In direct contravention of the recent vote by the European Parliament to curtail Software Patents, the Irish Presidency of the European Union has surreptitiously reinstated unlimited software patent language into the text of a statement to be adopted by the European Council of Ministers on Monday, May 17, without further debate! Full article is below: http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/05/13/1447225.shtml?tid=132&tid=150&tid=82 OpenOffice.org has a very strong presence in Europe. PLEASE, to all our European members, contact your local representative about this. As for everyone else, you can still contact the media. Heck! contact European agencies! -- "The only secure Microsoft software is what's still shrink-wrapped in their warehouse..." (Forno)