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An open letter from Alan CoxAn open letter from Alan CoxPosted Jun 3, 2004 13:32 UTC (Thu) by wookey (subscriber, #5501)In reply to: An open letter from Alan Cox by minichaz Parent article: An open letter from Alan Cox
And in principle the UK Liberal Party also opposes software patents, but its MEPs voted consistently for them at the first reading: http://www.ffii.org/~bkaindl/votes/country/UK.html (red is 'bad' votes, green is 'good' votes from the FFII perspective, liberals is ELDR) It's not clear if this is due to being ill-informed/confused or something more dastardly. Certainly the greens are the safest vote (or UKIP if you realy can't stand the EU). I'll be asking mine (Liberal) in person tomorrow in Cambridge what the hell he thinks he's playing at (having writen sensible-sounding things to me before the vote then voted for unlimited patentability when it came to the crunch, against party policy. I'm deeply unimpressed. More details here: http://www.ffii.org.uk/uk_meps.html The important thing to remember for those who are anti-EU (and thus presumably pro-UK) is that the UK Govt is massively pro-swpat and has been driving this process from the beginning. It takes (so far) very little notice of lobbying from SMEs like myself. The EU has been a paragon of democracy in comparison.
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