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Software Patents
Roi Danton
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General information:
[url]http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/help/spread.html[/url]
Explanation: [url]http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/intro/explain.html[/url]
If you don't want that Europe is overwhelmed by big software companies like it happened in the U.S. maybe it helps when you spread the danger and negative affects of software patents for the european market.
[url]http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/help/spread.html[/url]
Explanation: [url]http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/intro/explain.html[/url]
If you don't want that Europe is overwhelmed by big software companies like it happened in the U.S. maybe it helps when you spread the danger and negative affects of software patents for the european market.
Comments
Using *patently* un-democratic methods (and a possibly court-disputable violation of Council rules).... the two easier-corruptable arms of EU power (Commission and Council) managed to push this *patently* unjust directive forward into apparent second reading.
I can only hope:
-- That the violation of Council procedure is disputed, the un-democratic choice undone, and the ministers involved in securing this "victory" for their corporate financiers will receive assurance of their political career having ended today.
-- That in addition to sufficiently numerous MEP's realizing how flawed this directive is... a sufficient number of them carry a grudge towards the Commission for refusing their well-founded request for a repeated first reading.
-- That even if a second reading starts, a sufficiently active campaign can influence EuroParl to reject (or significantly alter) the directive.
-- That in worst case... should the directive enter into force... this will *not* sabotage adoption of the EU Constitution... which the Commission and Council (flying kamikaze either because of stupidity or corruption) seem to insist on doing.
If anyone has cards left... I hope they are good cards, and played soon enough. And whatever you do... *please* consider the Constitution on its own merit. Not only does the new Constitution allow for more democratic process in some fields (while admittedly, also reinforcing dismal non-elected institutions like the Council)... but it may provide better safeguards against corporate oligarchy getting the upper hand.
Whatever you do... please consider carefully what you want... and project your influence well.