Re: Fwd: swpat reply from Liz Lynne MEP (Lib Dem)

Alex Macfie wrote:

> First time to my knowledge that a LibDem MEP has cited the party policy.


See also variants of this letter from Elspeth Atwooll (Scotland) and 
Sarah Ludford (London), now linked from:
	http://kwiki.ffii.org/index.cgi?ElectUkLib0405En


Atwooll is even more complacent about the Council text, signing off

	"The Council has specifically excluded a computer program, as such, 
from constituting a patentable invention.  It has also accepted the 
Parliament's amendment (above) as the Condition of Patentablity.

	"I hope this will allay your concerns".


The letter from Sarah Ludford is longer and more circumspect, but 
crucially she thinks that she thinks that software patents should be 
available "for new inventions only, rather than computer programs as 
such" (?) -- and again, apparently does not see through to the emptiness 
of the Council text.