Re: [Fsfe-uk] McCarthy report withdrawn

[Ramanan Selvaratnam]

Adam Moran wrote:
> hi,
>
> i'm new to this list - i'm cross posting this to the [Fsfe-ie] list


Thanks Adam.

In the unlikely event the forthcoming (next Wed.) conference has not had 
enough coverage I post the news article that drew my attention to this. 
Please forward on as appropriate.

<http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=654369586&fp=2&fpid=1>

'Next Wednesday the Green Party in the European Parliament, which agrees 
with opponents such as the open source and free software communities, 
will host a conference on the draft law which is scheduled to be voted 
on at the next plenary session of the European Parliament towards the 
end of this month.'

There is Tim Berners-Lee, a scientists' petition, an economic forum from 
Maasrticht and  a consumer group represented among others.

[...]


> e-Patents and Financial Investing

IMHO this is a good angle to boost the anti-swpat campaign.


Another helpful angle is the one based on pure economic studies

<http://swpat.ffii.org/archive/mirror/impact/index.en.html>
'Research on the MacroEconomic Effects of Patents'

Best regards,

Ramanan