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Time for another Europatent push

Time for another Europatent push

Posted Oct 21, 2003 13:15 UTC (Tue) by Arker (guest, #14205)
Parent article: Time for another Europatent push

Hey, I'm looking for a good article in language ordinary folk get on why this is bad. Trying to explain it myself, I find myself relying too much on arguments regular folk just don't get, and becoming too verbose. Anyone have a good link?


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Time for another Europatent push

Posted Oct 21, 2003 13:41 UTC (Tue) by wookey (subscriber, #5501) [Link]

The subject _is_ complicated. For a full understanding of the EU legislation, the arguments and the politics you need to spend days reading the FFII website. However if you just want a simple summary:

I wrote a piece on this subject summarising the arguments and intended for a general audience. It was described as 'the clearest exposition I've heard on the subject' by one audience member, so, encouraged by such praise, I'll suggest you take a look:
http://www.aleph1.co.uk/armlinux/talks/camtalk.html

Time for another Europatent push

Posted Oct 21, 2003 15:43 UTC (Tue) by dthurston (subscriber, #4603) [Link]

The correct URL is apparently
http://www.aleph1.co.uk/talks/camtalk.html

Time for another Europatent push

Posted Oct 21, 2003 15:48 UTC (Tue) by Arker (guest, #14205) [Link]

Thanks. That URL is actually 404, but I'm assuming http://www.aleph1.co.uk/talks/camtalk.html is what you meant. I think it will help.

Time for another Europatent push

Posted Oct 21, 2003 13:54 UTC (Tue) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

Try this. It's a 2 page letter I wrote to the MEPs.

http://www.compsoc.com/~coriordan/docs/dear_mep/

Ciaran O'Riordan

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