European Alliance of 2.000.000 SMEs Against Software Patents
"Seth Johnson" <[email protected]>
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(Forwarded from Patents list) -----Original Message----- From: Hartmut Pilch <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 17:36:18 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Patents] European Alliance of 2.000.000 SMEs against Software Patents An alliance representing a total of 2 million small and medium-sized businesses in Europe says that software patents, as legalised by the proposed patent directive, are harmful for SMEs. The declaration http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eubsa-swpat0202/ceapme0309/index.en.html has been distributed to the press this morning and explained at the press conference in the European Parliament. The European Commission's patent legislators have tried to legitimate their appraoch by claiming an "economic majority" for themselves, see http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eukonsult00/ Now this claim seems more doubtful than ever. SMEs are said to account for about 70% of the investements and jobs in the IT sector. -- Hartmut Pilch, FFII & Eurolinux Alliance tel. +49-89-18979927 Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation http://swpat.ffii.org/ 200,000 votes 2000 firms against software patents http://noepatents.org/ _______________________________________________ News mailing list (un)subscribe via http://petition.ffii.org/ [email protected] http://lists.ffii.org/mailman/listinfo/news