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Posted Aug 28, 2003 20:44 UTC (Thu) by dwheeler (subscriber, #1216)
Parent article: EU software patent vote delayed

Here's a (bad) translation from Italian to English using Google's translation tools, lightly formatted for clarity. The FFII, at least, believes that this rescheduling has occurred specifically due to its lobbying. If so, that's great news - somehow the majority managed to get themselves heard, in spite of a committee that ignored the people. I look forward to better translations, but it's possible to get the sense of the article from this bad translation.

PRESS ENCOUNTER/PRESS CONFERENCE AGAINST the LICENCES SOFTWARE SENT BACK to the 12 SEPTEMBER the Conference of the Secretaries Generates them of the European Parliament has decided some hour ago to move the argument and the ballot on the McCarthy relationship from the date inzialmente previewed of 1° the september to the second session of september (22 - 25 september); the exact date will come established the next week to Strasburgo.

This is happening for the efforts of lobby of the FFII (Foundation for to Free Information Infrastructure, http://ffii.org/) against the relationship of McCarthy on the brevettabilità of the software, efforts that we support and invite to support in the ways described on the situated one of the FFII.

We invite the Italian enterprises to make to feel the own voice sending a fax addressed to the European parliamentarians, like described to the page http://swpat.xsec.it/. We invite the European parliamentarians to make the amendments proposals from the FFII own, that they are lists and described to you in detail to http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eubsa-swpat0202/prop/#pream .

In order to diffuse the acquaintance of the problem of the licences software, the radical Group to the European Parliament, the CDTI (Managing Clubs Technologies of the Information) and the Association free software less invite citizens and active enterprises to every tito it in the development of the software, free or, to the encounter/press conference that will be kept near the office of the European Parliament to Rome, in via IV November 149, to the 10.30.

The date of the conference, initially established in order tomorrow 29 August, is SENT BACK hour OF TWO WEEKS, to day 12 september. The event is aimed sensibilizzare the European press and parliamentarians approximately the dangers of the McCarthy directive on the European licences software and will come diffused from radical Radio. Greater information on the licences software in Europe in the official notice print ( http://softwarelibero.it/news/20030826-01.shtml ) emitted from the Association free software. The program of the encounter will be published hardly available on http://softwarelibero.it/news/20030828-01.shtml , of continuation to the text of the present announcement.

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Posted Aug 28, 2003 21:46 UTC (Thu) by ecureuil (subscriber, #3507) [Link]

For those readers who are not aware of the complexity of European
Politics, the Radical Party is a small center party mainly Italian. They
have not enough deputies in the European Parliament to form a group. The
only thing radical in them is their name and maybe their
anti-clericalism.

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Posted Aug 30, 2003 9:57 UTC (Sat) by bockman (subscriber, #3650) [Link]

Google made a good enough job. Here is the same translation, with some obvious fixes.

PRESS ENCOUNTER/PRESS CONFERENCE AGAINST the LICENCES SOFTWARE SENT BACK TO THE 12 SEPTEMBER.

The Conference of the Eureopean Parliament General Secretaries has decided some hour ago to move the debate and the vote on the McCarthy report from the initially planned date of September 1 to the second session of september (22 - 25 september); the exact date will be established the next week in Strasburg,.

This is a success for the lobby efforts of the FFII (Foundation for to Free Information Infrastructure, http://ffii.org/) against the report of McCarthy on the suitability of software patents, efforts that we support and invite to support in the ways described on the site of the FFII.

We invite the Italian enterprises to let hear their voice sending a fax addressed to the European parliamentarians, as described at the page http://swpat.xsec.it/. We invite the European parliamentarians to endorse the amendments proposed from the the FFII, that are listed and described to you in detail at http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eubsa-swpat0202/prop/#pream

In order to diffuse the knowledge of the problem on software licences, the radical Group to the European Parliament, the CDTI (Managing Clubs Technologies of the Information) and the Association for the Free Software invite citizens and enterprises, regardless of their involvment with free software development, to the encounter/press conference that will be kept at the office of the European Parliament to Rome, in via IV November 149, at 10.30.
The date of the conference, initially established for tomorrow August 29, is POSTPONED OF TWO WEEKS, to September 12. The event is aimed to make the European press and parliamentarians aware of the dangers of the McCarthy directive on the European software licences and will be broadcasted by Radio Radicale. More information on the software licences in Europe in the official press notice ( http://softwarelibero.it/news/20030826-01.shtml ) emitted from the Association for the Free Software. The program of the encounter will be published as soon as available on http://softwarelibero.it/news/20030828-01.shtml , after the text of the present announce.