Re: [Patents] McCarthy complains about 2003/05/07-8 conference

[James Heald <j.heald@ucl.ac.uk>]

Cheer up, Hartmut!

When your opponents start putting out material as stupid as this, you
know you have got them worried!

Yours wasn't a meeting held in a corner -- the other MEPs on JURI
presumably all knew it was happening, so it's obvious that she was told
that it was coming up.


There were a couple of bits that weren't quite clear in the google
translation of the computerwoche article,

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.computerwoche.de%2Findex.cfm%3Fpageid%3D254%26artid%3D48887&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

I wonder if somebody could retranslate:

legen sich ein Ei ins Nest  ('puts an egg in the nest') ?

and 

McCarthys Kritik an die Adresse der Softwarepatentgegner gipfelte denn
auch in dem Vorwurf, diese entzögen sich einer offenen Diskussion. Und
sie drohte ihnen mehr oder weniger direkt: Würden die Lobbyisten gegen
Softwarepatente in den Verhandlungen vor dem EU-Parlament mit zu
harschen Forderungen auftreten, würde sie diese alle abschmettern.

('McCarthys criticism to the address of the software patent opponents
culminated also in the reproach, this would extract itself from an open
discussion. And it threatened them more or less directly: If the
lobbyists would also arise against software patents in the negotiations
before the European Union parliament to harschen demands, it became all
this abschmettern.') ?