Munich, Germany (20 October 2004). A new campaign against software patents in the EU was launched today in 12 languages at www.NoSoftwarePatents.com. The campaign is managed by Florian Müller of SWM Software-Marketing GmbH, a software industry veteran with almost 20 years of expertise, and is supported by three corporate partners: 1&1, Red Hat, and MySQL AB. The campaign manager will discuss the issue of software patents with politicians and the media.