FreeNet's Form to Oppose Software Patents in EU

[Seth Johnson]

(From Software Patents list)

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Subject: [Patents] Form for demonstrating opposition to software patents
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 12:10:14 +0100
From: Alex Macfie <alex at cgce.net>
To: patents <patents at aful.org>

As you know, the plenary debate in the European Parliament on whether
Software Patents are to be permitted in the EU is likely to take place
starting on the 30th of June, giving us just a few days to demonstrate the
strength of feeling over the damage that could be done to innovation and
competition in the European software industry if software patents are
permitted.

The form at http://freenetproject.org/eusp/index.php, designed by Ian Clarke
of FreenetProject http://www.freenetproject.org/, presents small to medium
sized software development firms with an opportunity to express their
concern over this issue. This will be distributed to MEPs to make them aware
of how SMEs feel about the issue.

"Ian Clarke" <ian at freenetproject.org>
James Heald <j.heald at ucl.ac.uk>,
Alex Hudson <home at alexhudson.com>,
Nick Hill <nick at nickhill.co.uk>,
Richard Clark <richard at elysium.demon.co.uk>,
Alex Macfie <alex at cgce.net>

Alex Macfie                                     www.cgce.net   alex at cgce.net
Trewarren, Llanddewi Rhydderch, Abergavenny, Gwent NP7 9UT
"The exclusive right to invention [is] given not of natural right,
but for the benefit of society." -- Thomas Jefferson