Re: (OT) Webdemo against European Software Patents
This is (OT), but of general interest to the community. And since
Nico was nice enough to reply, I hope it is worth posting to the list.
On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 01:36:55PM +0100, Nico W. Fritschi wrote:
> Hello Doug,
>
> > Shouldn't this be of concern to *all* Europeans, based on the tactics
> > being used? Even if someone were to not care about the patent issue,
> > they should care about the damage that is being done to Government by
> > representation.
> I agree with your view that it should be of concern to all Europeans, but
> as it is right now it is not easy to get the attention of the broad public
> in such a short time. AFAIK it is common practice to bring up items on
> council meetings that are actually "off topic". I've been told that these
> are usually just included if they are non-controversial, i.e. a viable
> compromise has been found. This is not the case here tough.
>
> Right now it is important to get the attention of as many people as
> possible, especially those who are inclined to help.
>
> > Is it too late or unwise to make this an issue not only of software
> > patents, but of misguided tactics? It would seem like the potential for
> > a wider audience is there.
> I don't think it would be advisable to try to make this a broader issue
> than it already is at this point of time. Mainly this is because of the
> time issue. If this item should be passed next monday the parliament
> wouldn't have the possibilty to restart the discussion.
>
> For more indepth information on these issues have a look at
> www.ffii.org/index.en.html, http://swpat.ffii.org/index.en.html and of
> course the webdemo page at http://demo.ffii.org/cons0501/
>
> If you could help us to spread the word in the Debian community a lot could
> be achieved towards getting the attention of the council members.
>
> Thanks you very much,
>
> Nico Fritschi
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Doug Jensen
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