[SWLUG] Alan's open letter

[Lyn David Thomas]

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 10:30:31 +0100
<marcusdavage at onetel.net.uk> wrote:

> 
> 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."


In which case why did they vote as they did?
-- 
Lyn David Thomas