Re: [Patents] JURI report

[Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr>]

On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 11:24:06AM +0200, Christian E. Jørgensen wrote:
> > > Does a debugged version of the final JURI report (the juri030617.pdf
> > > file available here:
> > > http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/juri0617/index.en.html) exist? If not, is
> > > it forthcoming?
> > 
> > What do you mean by "debugged version" ?
> 
> Well, I mean a *commented* version, like the FFII counter-proposal.
> 
> If I were to contact my MEPs to expose the lies and propaganda of my
> least favourite rapporteur and her misguided followers, then it would be
> helpful to be able to attach a single document detailing what's wrong
> with the current directive proposal, what its consequences are, and how
> to fix it.
> 
> At least, that's what I think. How would you expose the aforementioned
> lies and propaganda in a text that's short and easily digestible (as in
> an email) yet has printable documentation to back it up?
> 


I would simply remark that the people concerned with culture and even
more with industry are likely to have a better understanding of the
effects of software patenting on the economy than people who are just
lawyers, and whose role is to harmonize the law in the union, not
chage it globally.

   No it is true that, being led by a british subject, JURI sees
harmonization as imposing on the whole union the practices of UK,
under US pressure.

  I also reming you that in the commission, the information society
directorate and the enterprise directorate were both against the
directive (promoted by the internal market directorate, again under
british control), and against the conclusion of the economic adviser
chosen by this directorate (Peter Holmes).

   That should be enough to convince any reasonable person that there
is something fishy (and the fish is not fresh) about this whole
business.

   Since when, in any enterprise, the lawyers should set the economic
goals of a company.

   Mc Carthy says she wants to limit software patenting.  Then why is
it that is is much more lax about it than the MEP commission
representing the industry.

   Bernard

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