Re: [Patents] European Alliance of 2.000.000 SMEs against Software Patents

[Rui Miguel Seabra <rms@1407.org>]

On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 16:36, Hartmut Pilch wrote:
> An alliance representing a total of 2 million small and medium-sized
> businesses in Europe says that software patents, as legalised by the 
> proposed
> patent directive, are harmful for SMEs.

The casual (unattentive) reader might think 2000000 is being confused
with 500000, but that is not so.

One should read further down to the annotated link:

Alliance for Action
http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eubsa-swpat0202/ceapme0309/ceapme-ab0309.en.pdf

In order to find that the real number, one has to take in account
that the Press Release is not only from CEA-PME but also from CEDI and
ESBA. Hence Alliance, hence 2 million PMEs.

Hurra!
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| but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi
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