Re: [Patents] Re: FFII: Brussels 2004-04-14 Events

[Marcel Martin <mm@ellipsa.net>]

Jonas Maebe a écrit :
> 
> On 26 mrt 2004, at 14:52, Marcel Martin wrote:
> 
> > Mais même ces nombres sont insignifiants. Réunir 500 personnes
> > à Bruxelles, c'est pire que de ne rien faire,
> 
> That is not true. It's thanks to the previous protest that we got
> mentioned in several places in the mainstream media, and I personally
> got into close contact with an MEP thanks to that media attention. That
> MEP has quite a bit of influence in his group and also in the Belgian
> government.
> 
> Getting 500 geeks from behind their computers to Brussels is a feat
> that does not go unnoticed :)

Yes, I agree, of course. But that won't prove the real existence of 
hundreds of thousands of opponents to software patents. And I am 
convinced that if the European Commission received +100,000 postcards 
(or letters) from everywhere in Europe, the media coverage would be 
incomparably greater that the one due to a demonstration with a 
few hundreds people.

mm