[SWLUG] Alan's open letter

[marcusdavage at onetel.net.uk]

I have just received a reply from our two MEPs, Glenys 
Kinnock and Eluned Morgan who said that they are "not in 
favour of patenting of software as in the US", that "Europe 
needs a uniform legal approach to stop the drifting towards 
extending patentability to inventions, which would not have 
been traditionally allowed, and to stop patentability of pure 
business methods, algorithms or mathematical methods", 
that "Software products as such, must not be patented" and 
that "Open source software must be allowed to flourish and 
the Commission must ensure that this Directive does not have 
any adverse effect on opensource software and small software 
developers."

Marcus