On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 01:55:54PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 22:54, Joost van Baal wrote: > > (For those who don't know what this is about: the link is > > http://swpat.ffii.org/termine/2003/europarl/05/ .) > > Hi. We didn't get to discuss the meeting in any depth. Busy, met a lot of people there. And didn't want to get back home _that_ late, so left quite early. We'll speak IRL another time :) > Evidently we are going to have software patents in Europe; > equally evidently we are going to get software patent language > with qualifications that reflect lessons learned from the > American experience (and, hopefully, pressure from small > software developers). It will be interesting to see what > those protections are. A lot will ride on how the final > amendments are worded. Which is alarming, because the > amendments I have read so far were not well written. And > ambiguity in the law is always the enemy of the one who > can less afford lawyers. > > I was just googling for news of the event but couldn't > find any mention of it. If you find any related links, > please send them to me! Hm, I'd have expected something to pop up on http://lists.ffii.org/archive/mails/swpat/2003/May/ , but nothing specifically about this event. :( http://www.greens-efa.org/en/html/ hasn't been updated either. More googling later. Bye, Joost
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