Re: [Patents] Large Industry Assocations for McCarthy + Program Claims

[Erik Josefsson <erikjosefsson@telia.com>]

On Sat, 26 Apr 2003 13:15:24 +0200
Francois PELLEGRINI <pelegrin@labri.u-bordeaux.fr> wrote:

> 
> Hartmut Pilch wrote:
> > See text below, converted from an MSWord document.
> > 
> > Note that they claim so speak even in the name of "Europes fastest
> > growing 500 Opensource Companies", saying that allowing patent
> > owners to ban interoperable software, as secured by article 6 of the
> > directive, is a way of protecting open-source software and that
> > preventing the patenting of"pure business methods" is a way of
> > preventing "american excesses".
> 
> Wwat would be interesting is to know what are these
> "500 open-source companies" (are there really so much ?  8^)  ).
> I guess in their opinion Microsoft is an open-source
> company, through its "open 90% of the sources of Windows"
> propaganda program.

A little research indicates 

        http://www.openforumeurope.org
and

        http://www.interforum.org

are kind of the same organisations. Don't know what that means.


You can contact InterForum at:
Winkfield House
83 St. Judes Road
Englefield Green
Surrey TW20 0DF
Tel: 01784 473005
Fax: 01784 473006

How to Contact OpenForum
By telephone: 01784 473 005
By fax: 01784 473 006
By post: OpenForum Europe
Winkworth House
83 St. Judes Road
Englefield Green
Surrey TW20 0DF

The same person seems to register membership.

//Erik

ps
research done by www.sslug.dk member