McCarthy cites support by "opensource community"

[PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>]

Upon reading the JURI draft report

     http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/juri0617/juri030617.pdf

there is a new statement

  In drawing up her report, the rapporteur has taken over ideas put forward by
  the committees consulted in such as way as to ensure that the resulting text
  is compatible with the Community's obligations under international law. The
  rapporteur has also carefully weighed the arguments put forward by industry
  and the open source community, some members of which have expressly stated
  their support for this plan to provide clarity and a clear explanation of 
when
  patents will be granted in this field.

which apparently refers to Graham Taylor's OpenForumEurope, who indeed
supports McCarthy's various patentability extensions and pretends not to
understand what he is supporting.

Nevertheless it is quite untruthful to enlarge this to "some members of
the open source community", and it is of course equally misleading to
construct a dichotomy between "industry" and "open source community".
McCarthy knows all this very well.

See

        http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eubsa-swpat0202/ipat0304/

for more on the OpenForumEurope maneuver.

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