-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/21/2014 09:04 AM, Matthias Kirschner wrote: > hi Carsten, > > * Carsten Agger <[email protected]> [2014-01-16 17:00:33 +0100]: > >> I've been invited to a meeting next Monday, and I think I will ad >> the support of our local FSFE group on the "NO" side. The >> reasoning is, once again: We do not want any software patents, >> and we believe this unified patents may easily become a means for >> introducing software patents on the European level. > > I am sorry I am late on this. How did it go? > It went fine!
The Danish IT-worker's union PROSA are very keen on getting a "no", because they're convinced that adopting the Unified Patent Court without a clear ban on software patents means that software patents *will* be enforceable throughout the EU, or at least that that's a very serious risk. Therefore, they wish to launch a "no" campaign that builds on the threat of software patents and support to and solidarity with SMEs. It's sort of a first that software patents becomes a prime issue in national politics. It's also kind of bewildering to the "yes" side who hadn't expected this. So I think the campaign and the ideas behind it look promising. The referendum doesn't look very promising, though. For the patent court to be rejected, 30% of those eligible to vote most vote "no" - a simple majority is not enough. That's very difficult for a technical issue like this one. That > For the follow-up it might help you to read > https://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130612-01.en.html and the linked > documents. As you can read German also > <http://www.bundestag.de/bundestag/ausschuesse17/a06/anhoerungen/archiv/47_Patentierung_von_Computerprogrammen/04_Stellungnahmen/Stellungnahme_Kirschner.pdf> > > our written statement to the German Parliament. > > Some other background on the German situation is available in my > blog entry > https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/fsfe-meeting-the-fsf-crew-in-boston-2/ (I > have no clue why the URL is so strange, I converted from the short > numbers to longer links some time ago). > Thanks for the links, I'm looking at them now. :-) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlLeLS8ACgkQletyW1YzdSGFagCfSEhZsI8omJbrmPHNxViXez3p 14IAn2/t68Yp0cPF2zyL+k/ON/hDoiyU =SsM3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
