The text of the ammendments that where accepted yesterday are here
http://www3.europarl.eu.int/omk/omnsapir.so/calendar?APP=PV2&LANGUE=EN (click on the 24th).
All in all it looks great to me, its hard to imagine what kind of software can be patented with those amendments, very little. The only down side are the first handfull of amendments that go on about how god himself gave us patents, gee arent they great and the EU commits itself to worshipping at the foot of the patent alter once a day and twice on sundays. If i where reading the bill i would read these sections as the intent of the bill, and the rest as the detail, if the finished product still conveys that impression then these declarations of intent/undying love could be used as a foundation for attacks on the 'detail' in the future.
Sean
#Quoting Adam Moran adam@diamat.org.uk:
hi adam,
adam beecher wrote:
No, aside from the fact that these things would probably look better
coming
from an "association" or somesuch,
i dunno ... i thought this when i was sending it ... but then i thought it makes more sense hitting them with the same information over and over again from lots of sources ... a kinda DDOS
particularly in a case like this where
the MEP's are being hammered from the other side by associations, corporations and professional lobbyists. There's no doubt that the
personal
approach does work in some circumstances, but I think personal lobbying
is
best used to /enhance/ an organised campaign.
what we are doing now is an organised campaign - for me, it's organised via this email list and i think this is an appropriate method
Greenpeace and the EFF are perfect examples, and when you get right down
to
it we're just talking about a few forms and a web-fax gateway, something
a
bunch of techies like us should be able to procure and produce in a
couple
of hours.
... Tab-delimited spreadsheet of Irish MEP fax numbers attached
i take your point about the need to use the technology available to us ... i'll get together a list of the uk meps, emails for the next round
-- adam
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