At Sun, 5 Feb 2006 21:48:31 +0100, xdrudis wrote:
El Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 05:05:08PM +0100, Patrick Ohnewein deia:
I write this e-mail to ask, if the FSFE has some reccomandations about the questionary "Consultation on future patent policy in Europe":
http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/indprop/patent/consultation_en.htm
Is a request to fill out the questionary planed, should this questionary be used as a chance for european companies to communicate their disagreement to software patents?
If it can be a chance, should a request be send out to the companies, which already communicated their disagreement to software patents?
Yes, possibly. I'd tend to express disagreement with EPO practice, structure and unaccountability which in particular for a sw company has much to do with the granting of swpats. But people and organisations in other non-patentable fields may have quite the same concerns. And people in patentable fields unsatified with the quality of EPO work might also join in.
So maybe just like last time it wasn't about free software but about software in general, although the free software community had ample reason to worry, this time maybe it isn't about software patents but about patents in general, although software is probably going to suffer from it.
The FFII is working on it: http://wiki.ffii.org/Cpedu0510En. You can also help, the discussion about this is currently happening on the bxl mailinglist (http://lists.ffii.org/mailman/listinfo/bxl).
Economic-majority.com is also an FFII initiative by the way.
And my last question ( for now ;) ) Is there a site which will be an aggregator of all the sites and activities (ffii, nosoftwarepatents, ip-watch, blogs, ...) against software patents in europe?
news collection here, but possibly not what you mean ?
That's FFII news page for non-patent stuff. The page about software patent news is: http://wiki.ffii.org/SwpatcninoEn
Jeroen Dekkers