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If you intend to write or email MEPs to counter, please consider this.If you intend to write or email MEPs to counter, please consider this.Posted Sep 3, 2003 19:35 UTC (Wed) by dwalters (guest, #4207)Parent article: Arlene McCarthy's software patent "factsheet"
It's tempting to react to McCarthy's factsheet to MEPs by shooting emails or letters from the hip to the MEPs. If you intend to write to MEPs, it would be better to spend a little time (not too much time though; the next important session on this is just weeks away) researching the facts, and coming up with a well researched rebuttal. Emotional pleas won't work. You can get all the relevant information, from the FFII web site. In particular, check out the Patent Horror Galley. Also note the Counter Proposal. Finally, don't waste your time trying to change McCarthy's mind on this. Write to the other MEPs. Or if you're going to write to McCarthy, make it an open letter, and copy it to a newspaper.
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If you intend to write or email MEPs to counter, please consider this. Posted Sep 3, 2003 20:08 UTC (Wed) by oak (guest, #2786) [Link] Or even better, make public fun of her. Political satire has long tradition in European newspapers. Here are a couple of ideas for newspaper / T-shirt pictures:A map of the Europe on which an EU patent advocate is painting a huge target / bullseye. On the sky there's an intercontinental patent litigation nuke dropping to the target. A split image with lawyer on the left and thief on the right. Lawyer has a suitcase behind his back and thief a crowbar. Lawyer talks to a politician and thief to a car owner.
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