Re: EU Software Patents

2003-08-28 Thread Henning Schmiedehausen
Terrific. In Germany, political parties _are_ charitable organizations (gemeinnützig) and donations to them are fully tax-deductable. Regards Henning On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 20:28, Brian Behlendorf wrote: On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, David Reid wrote: Bill, are you seriously

Re: EU Software Patents

2003-08-28 Thread Andrew Savory
Hi, On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Andrew Savory wrote: Some of you may already be aware that on 1st September the European parliament will vote [1] on the issue of software patents. [1] http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/plen0620/index.en.html Rumour has it that the McCarthy report [2] has been

Re: EU Software Patents

2003-08-28 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Andrew Savory wrote: Rumour has it that the McCarthy report [2] has been withdrawn from next week's European Parliament agenda. [2] http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eubsa-swpat0202/amccarthy0206/index.en.html Aye - I've heard the same; but Cordis still shows it on the