[ILUG] Software patents, Ireland and the EU/Proposition for action

[Colm Buckley]

On 1 Mar 2005, at 14:47, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:

> To the ifso members, most of whom are members of the list, by the 
> looks of the membership, what would be the thinking on a petition, 
> similar to the thankpoland letter, either limted to Irish people or 
> open to Europe &/or ROW, assuming the ifso was willing to be the 
> offical source of such a thing ?

Petitions are largely useless.  Everyone who thinks that this is a bad 
idea (and personlly, I think that the notion of handing the European 
software industry to the USA on a plate is a pretty bad idea), should 
write individually to their MEPs, to the Ministers for Trade (Micheál 
Martin and Michael Ahern), and to Commissioner McCreevy, explaining why 
it's a bad idea and why the interests of the wider European software 
industry should be placed ahead of those of Microsoft.

	Colm

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