Re: You have rights.. Software Patents are Illegal

Christian Beauprez wrote:
> Once again thankyou to all of you for your thoughtful ideas, debates
> and patience.  I do hope that we can put enough pressure on the
> Council to hand this issue of major legal as well as philosophical
> importance back to Parliamentary democracy.  Please raise these
> issues with your representatives and anyone else who maybe
> interested.

I've been looking around your site.  I am not at all up to speed with
all the technicalities of these arguments, but your position based on
international law is interesting, and the way you argue it seems
convincing to people like me who aren't really following all the
details -- and maybe also to people who *are* following all the
details, I don't know.

How can we expose people with votes that matter (MEPs?) to your
argument?  Ideally that would mean getting them into discussion with
you personally, or at least with someone fluent in the argument.  If
you are already involved with the FFII, perhaps they have ideas on
this.

Is the purpose of writing to all these various campaign groups to find
people to beta-test your arguments?  If so, perhaps I should not have
attempted to intervene in your discussion with Phil (who seemed to be
playing Devil's Advocate, as usual).

Also, in your FFII address, you say that you have legal expertise.
How high-powered is this legal expertise?  I mean, could you hold your
own in discussion with European legal people?  Or do you need to find
higher-powered legal people to help verify the soundness of the
argument?

(In other words, what do you need from us, if anything, to take this
further?)

Jim

P.S.  There are quite a few bugs in your website -- I started to list
them but then realised that the website is actually still a work-in-
progress.  But still, here are a few: "bureaucracy" is spelt wrong in
your ILA constitution, it might be better to quote from the Oxford
English Dictionary rather than dictionary.com (more respectable?, see
links below, assuming the definitions are usable in your argument),
and all those <BR>s inside paragraphs along with tiny text makes the
spacing really ugly in Opera on Linux.

  http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/programme?view=uk
  http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/process_1?view=uk

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