At Sun, 5 Feb 2006 21:48:31 +0100, xdrudis wrote: > > El Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 05:05:08PM +0100, Patrick Ohnewein deia: > > I write this e-mail to ask, if the FSFE has some reccomandations about > > the questionary "Consultation on future patent policy in Europe": > > > > http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/indprop/patent/consultation_en.htm > > > > Is a request to fill out the questionary planed, should this questionary > > be used as a chance for european companies to communicate their > > disagreement to software patents? > > > > If it can be a chance, should a request be send out to the companies, > > which already communicated their disagreement to software patents? > > > > http://www.economic-majority.com/supporter.en.php?show=all > > Yes, possibly. I'd tend to express disagreement with EPO practice, > structure and unaccountability which in particular for a sw company > has much to do with the granting of swpats. But people and organisations > in other non-patentable fields may have quite the same concerns. And > people in patentable fields unsatified with the quality of EPO work > might also join in. > > So maybe just like last time it wasn't about free software but about > software in general, although the free software community had ample > reason to worry, this time maybe it isn't about software patents but > about patents in general, although software is probably going to > suffer from it.
The FFII is working on it: http://wiki.ffii.org/Cpedu0510En. You can also help, the discussion about this is currently happening on the bxl mailinglist (http://lists.ffii.org/mailman/listinfo/bxl). Economic-majority.com is also an FFII initiative by the way. > > And my last question ( for now ;) ) Is there a site which will be an > > aggregator of all the sites and activities (ffii, nosoftwarepatents, > > ip-watch, blogs, ...) against software patents in europe? > > > > news collection here, but possibly not what you mean ? > > http://wiki.ffii.org/FfiinewsEn That's FFII news page for non-patent stuff. The page about software patent news is: http://wiki.ffii.org/SwpatcninoEn Jeroen Dekkers _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
