Re: [Patents] Request re: Software Patents

[Ward Vandewege <ward@pong.be>]

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Nevermind this post, I got lots of helpful explanation from
xdrudis@tinet.org, and now I understand. We will go ahead and have a go at
the counter proposal.

Bye for now,
Ward.

On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 03:33:40PM +0000, Ward Vandewege wrote:
> Onno wants concrete suggestions for amendments, which he will pass on to a
> Flemish EU parlementarian, who will propose them. Frankie Bollaert and I
> have volunteered to translate the amendments into Dutch, which is how he
> wants them. As suggested by xdrudis@tinet.org, I have read through 
> 
>   Problems with the  Juri committee rapporteur draft
>   http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eubsa-swpat0202/amccarthy0302/index.en.html
> 
> and
> 
>   Counter proposal (how would good amendments look like)
>   http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eubsa-swpat0202/prop/index.en.html
> 
> But to be honest these texts are quite legal for a non-legal brain like 
> mine.
> And I feel I don't have enough background on the whole history and procedure
> to pull amendments to the McCarthy's proposal from the links above, in an
> intelligent way.
> 
> Would anyone care to assist?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ward.
> 
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 08:29:01AM -0500, Seth Johnson wrote:
> > 
> > (Forwarded from FSF Europe Discussion list)
> > 
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: Patents
> > Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:11:09 +0100
> > From: Onno Timmerman <onno.timmerman@s-p-a.be>
> > To: discussion@fsfeurope.org
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > What is the state of the current draft for software patents. You see I'm 
> > not
> > a law. but am in a flux to make changes to the current draft. They need to
> > be in Dutch and I will hand them over to Kathleen Van Brempt sp.a EU parl.
> > She will give in any proposal I make. For that to do I need to know how 
> > bad
> > the current draft is with all the changes. (Saying simple NO to software
> > patents won't do)
> > 
> > Thanxs
> > Onno Timmerman
> > sp.a
> > 
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> > 
> 
> Ward Vandewege.
> 
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