[Fsfe-ie] Tonight's meeting

[Seth Johnson]

The most important thing they are doing is handing the honors off, so the
actors are different and 1) cannot be held accountable for the past history
and 2) can be made to feel obligated to take a waffling ("compromise" or
"balance") position until such time as they can be leaned on to listen to
patent establishment "reason."

Seth

James Heald wrote:
> 
> Ben North wrote:
> >
> > It's also very interesting about the Software Patent directive falling in
> > Ireland's presidency --- perhaps we'll be able to make a difference on this.
> 
> Does anybody know yet which ministry is likely to be leading on this,
> and which minister and civil servants will be in charge?
> 
> It could be worth talking to MEPs again, to find out who exactly will be
> co-ordinating the show.
> 
> Also whether there's a chance of opening the discussion up a bit -- it's
> quite hard for them to try to pilot their way to a concensus, if they
> haven't got everybody in the tent.
> 
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