[Fsfe-uk] Re: [Free-sklyarov-uk] FFII-UK update (software patents)

[Philip Hunt]

On Saturday 15 November 2003  4:51 pm, James Heald wrote:
>
> The Coreper decision on how to proceed with the Directive is expected
> any day now.  We really need to get the message over to MPs this
> weekend, if we are to stop a stitch-up on November 27.

My understanding from 
<http://swpat.ffii.org/news/recent/index.en.html#coreper031120>
is that the Nov 27 meeting won't discuss the Software Patent 
Directive, and consequently the whole thing will have to wait for
the next parliament, to be elected next year.

I'm not sure how to interprete this.

Either it's because the proponents of swpat realise that public 
sentiment on the issue is too strong for them to get their way, 
and they are waiting for lots of new MEPs to be elected, who don't 
know anything about this, so they can easily bamboozle them.

Or its because national govmts are beginning to thing again about
the issue, as they start to reaslise the original Directive was
seriously flawed. (Well, I can hope, can't I?)


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Phil Hunt, address@hidden