Re: [Patents] EU Patent Law Delayed a Month

[Simo Sorce <simo.sorce@xsec.it>]

On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 11:58, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> Is this a mistake or intentional?
> 
> On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 07:09, Seth Johnson wrote:
> > > http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=804236
> 
> > By Paul Meller, IDG News Service
> > May 19, 2003    
> > 
> > The software patent directive has sparked fierce debate in the software
> > industry, with free software and open source software supporters arguing
> > that there should be no directive at all. At the other extreme, large
> > patent-holders such as IBM have been pushing lawmakers to make the 
> > software
> > patent law as inclusive as possible. 
> > 
> > Arlene McCarthy, the chairwoman of the legal affairs committee on this
> > debate, said earlier this month she is not prepared to consider any
> > proposals for amendments that do not acknowledge the patentability of
> > software, therefore appearing to cut out the voice of the open and free
> > software community. 
> 
> 
> It's not just Free Software that it's threatened by software patents.
> All software based SME's (be it Free or non-Free/proprietary) are in
> pending doom.

Yes this is a very dangerous tactic.
I suppose it is a pre-thought tactic of our opposition.
They are trying to make parliament think it is only the so-called FLOSS
interest that is going to be touched here, and the next move, I suppose,
will be to show how little the FLOSS interest is, in comparison to the
rest of the industry, and therefore sacrificeable.
We need to make it clear that every SME will have problems with such a
directive (except a few ones, that will like to trasform themself from
producers to parasites).

Simo.


-- 
Simo Sorce - simo.sorce@xsec.it
Xsec s.r.l. - http://www.xsec.it
via Durando 10 Ed. G - 20158 - Milano
mobile: +39 329 328 7702
tel. +39 02 2399 7130 - fax: +39 02 700 442 399

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part