The most important thing they are doing is handing the honors off, so the actors are different and 1) cannot be held accountable for the past history and 2) can be made to feel obligated to take a waffling ("compromise" or "balance") position until such time as they can be leaned on to listen to patent establishment "reason."
Seth
James Heald wrote:
Ben North wrote:
It's also very interesting about the Software Patent directive falling in Ireland's presidency --- perhaps we'll be able to make a difference on this.
Does anybody know yet which ministry is likely to be leading on this, and which minister and civil servants will be in charge?
It could be worth talking to MEPs again, to find out who exactly will be co-ordinating the show.
Also whether there's a chance of opening the discussion up a bit -- it's quite hard for them to try to pilot their way to a concensus, if they haven't got everybody in the tent.
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