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Meaningful vs. meaningless support from businesses

Meaningful vs. meaningless support from businesses

Posted Sep 30, 2010 20:27 UTC (Thu) by coriordan (guest, #7544)
In reply to: Meaningful vs. meaningless support from businesses by FlorianMueller
Parent article: Red Hat Responds to U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Request for Guidance on Bilski

> He said that in order for the conservative EPP group to be impressed, the anti-software-patent camp would have to bring to the European Parliament a group of middled-aged closed-source entrepreneurs with beards, bellies and glasses

Yes, but let's not forget the commercial support we did have.

Organisations like UEAPME, representing 11 million employees, were fully behind us:

http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Statements_from_UEAPME

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Meaningful vs. meaningless support from businesses

Posted Oct 1, 2010 3:50 UTC (Fri) by FlorianMueller (guest, #32048) [Link]

CEA-PME was also supportive of our cause, but Eurochambres was on the other side, at least some of its key members. Plus, the likes of EICTA and UNICE formally counted lots of SMEs among their membership base. So an effort dedicated to the anti-software-patent-cause would have (had) to demonstrate the support it has.


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