Re: Reply from Arlene McCarthy MEP

[Hartmut Pilch <phm@a2e.de>]

When writing to Arlene McCarthy, please do not forget to point to the
public letter about the 2 example patents, which I sent to her and to this
forum.  I think she owes us an answer.

        http://www.aful.org/wws/arc/patents/2003-06/msg00047.html

She can not claim to have "honestly sought for a balance" etc and at the
same time continue to ignore this public letter (and ignore all other
offers of serious dialog, see http://swpat.ffii.org/players/amccarthy/).
All she has until now ever done is to send out standard answers to
unspecific letters from concerned (and possibly naive-sounding) software
developpers.  Whenever someone tries to ask her more specific questions,
there is no response at all.  However documenting the fact that there is
no response may also help.  So please remember the public letter and point
demand a response at every opportunity.

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