On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Charles Goyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.internetactu.com/archives/iactu42.html#edi
Sans vouloir envahir la M_L avec des questions politiques ou financi�res...:/ En voil� un autre d'un consultant FreeBSD qui commence � paniquer... http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/txt/patents.html Et voil� o� cela en est... On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 09:54:43PM +0100, Ram'on Garc'ia Fern'andez wrote: > I heard that there is a division of positions in the European > Comission. Could you give me more information? Specially who > is supporting us? DG= Directorate General DG Internal Markets wants to patent anything under the sky IP (intellectual property) is their responsibility in the Commission that includes Copyright and patents and lots of other things Both the Director and the Commissionner in charge are conservatives (very much so) DG Information Society Technology and DG Enterprises consider that it must first be analyzed whether this is benefical for the economy, and information society DG Competition is still speculating on the reasons for its own existence. Basically, they work on symptoms, i.e. trying to control individual cases of anti-competitive behaviour, but they never try to set up rules that will regulate markets for increased competition. That is the basic situation For more details, see what the various DG have been doing, and look at documents (such as the Nice speech of Commisionner Liikanen who is in charge of DG Information Society Technology and DG Enterprises (but the aggreement between the 2 DG is an actual bottom up agreement, not something imposed from the top). Bernard >
