Dear Ms Sinnot,
Sean CC'd me his reply and your comments on your position regarding EU Directive COD/2002/0047 (software patentability) and I have immediately updated your position as being opposed to software patentability.
On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 12:46 +0200, SINNOTT Kathy wrote:
Thanks for your e-mail. I am surprised to hear that I am listed as undecided on this issue.
I did send out e-mail correspondence as well as a briefing document [1,2] to you and all other MEPs explaining the issues surrounding software patentability as we saw them and mentioning the existence of the website [3]. If you replied and I mis-laid it then I humbly apologise.
In any case, your position has been recorded and I will inform the members of my respective groups of that position later this evening. We were actually working on the assumption that you would be opposing the patentability of software and I am delighted that you have confirmed them position. I have also updated a sister page belonging to the Irish Free Software Organisation to reflect your position also and I have posted the comments from your e-mail there:
http://www.ifso.ie/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi/SwpatMepPositions
I'd like to sincerely thank you for your position as software patentability will detrimentally affect many Irish SMEs, individual programmers, hobbyists and many Irish R&D programs.
If I can be of any further assistance in anyway on this issue please do not hesitate to contact by e-mail or on 086-2891589.
Kind regards, Barry O'Donovan
[1] http://www.kde.ie/patents/briefing/ [2] http://www.kde.ie/patents/briefing/swpats-briefing.pdf [3] http://www.kde.ie/patents/mep-status.php
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