[Gllug] Stepping up on the patents front

[Aaron Trevena]

On 6/5/05, Nelson Menezes <nelson_menezes at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I'll "third" it, although what really should change is the
> UK government's position. It might be worthwhile contacting
> your MP as well, even if the MEPs manage to stop it for
> now.

Yes, the opposition parties ought to be raking Lord Sainsbury (our
unaccountable and unelected Minister) over the coals and pointing out
the huge holes in the legislation and the UKPOs failure to do it's job
properly.
 
> It's national governments pushing for this ridiculous thing
> (because they have the interested companies so far up
> their... ahem). The European Parliament is actually mostly
> against it, but national governments will force it through
> any way they can.

It isn't just the national governments, several IT organisations are
supporting it against the members will.

EICTA is pushing very hard despite national member organisations being
against it as well as some of its larger members (Like Sun and
Oracle).

Intellect is also lobbying very hard even though they haven't asked
their membership about it and don't have any support from the IT
industry.

Finally the BCS is tacitly endorsing Intellects position. If you are a
member of any of these organisations I would be kicking up a stink,
particularly with the BCS.

Also if you are a member of the Lib Dem party you should join the
Liberal Democrats Online and complain to your MP and Ministers about
the complete hash they have made of this (LDO supports the FFII,
Sharon Bowles and her cabal of pro-patent LD MEPs support the council,
the Party voted for a position against software patents - complete
shambles).

Cheers,

A.
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