Re: An Open Letter On Software Patents and EU Election (fwd)

On Saturday 05 Jun 2004 09:56, Tim Jackson wrote:
> On the software patents issue in particular, given that all 3 main parties
> in the UK are screwing over their own voters, the UK desperately needs
> some balance. Alan Cox is probably right to largely ignore the particular
> politics of UKIP, because
[...]
> But let's not forget Alan's other suggestion - the Greens. 

Why not just leave voting decisions up to voters? Accept that the Greens and 
the UKIP are both going to be equally good on software patents, and then 
decide based upon their other policies according to your own opinion. Have a 
read of their web sites, rather than rely on the "interpretation" of others.

I'm not sure that this is really the place to be making sweeping statements 
about the attitudes of the Greens and the UKIP towards the EU, nor about the 
good and bad points of the EU as regards the elections, nor indeed anything 
off-topic to digital rights / software patents.

Regards,
Tom
(a Green)