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Date: 2003-04-04
EU: Petition gegen Softwarepat/ente-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- Thank you for signing the Petition for a Software Patent Free Europe http://petition.eurolinux.org/ a while ago. We now need your support again. The European Parliament is likely to ratify a Software Patent Directive, possibly with helpful amendments, in May or June. Detailed news are found at http://swpat.ffii.org/news/index.en.html The Green and Liberal Fractions of the European Parliament are calling on representatives of Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) to speak at a hearing on May 8th about the Software Patent Directive Project. Please consider speaking at this hearing, if you can speak for a company. Companies from Eastern Europe (future member countries) are also (and even particularly) welcome. Contact us for details. Everybody in Brussels is speaking about SMEs, SMEs, SMEs. But the SMEs are phantoms, they are never there. Instead lobbyists are speaking on behalf of SMEs. Quite a few are asking for software patents in the name of SMEs. As a real SME, you are sure to get attention. Consider spending some time now instead of spending a lot on patent litigation and monopoly software later on. Here are a few simple things to do: (1) Endorse our Amendment Proposals by clicking http://petition.ffii.org/eubsa/en (2) Now you are logged into a system which makes it easy to select and contact Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) Click ==> My MEPs ==> I would rather select an MEP myself ==> [ selection criteria ] ==> [ 1 MEP ] (3) Directly phone your MEP, express your concern about the "Software Patent Directive Project", find out who in this MEP's office is studying the matter and how they think / whom they follow, and leave a note in the MEP data form. (4) Write to the person with whom you just phoned. Feel free to ask for our assistance in formulating your letter. In any case, send us a copy. (5) Make a donation for our lobbying expenses. We are spending at least 30,000 EUR on top of a lot of unpaid voluntary work, and we will not be able to pay all our bills unless you come forward with donations. The bank account for a donation is Germany Bank Code 70150000 S.W.I.F.T.: SSKM DE MM Bank Address: DE 80335 München Lotstr 1 Name of Bank: Stadtsparkasse München Account: 31112097 Account Owner: FFII e.V. Keyword: europarl It would be great if you could get started with at least one of the above items right now. Thank you very much. -- Hartmut Pilch, FFII & Eurolinux Alliance tel. +49-89-12789608 Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation http://swpat.ffii.org/ 140,000 signatures against software patents http://noepatents.org/ - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by Doser published on: 2003-04-04 comments to [email protected] subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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