[ILUG] Re: ILUG Digest, Vol 31, Issue 6

[Tony Groves]

You can add me to the list! Thanks.

Tony Groves
IT Manager

Dublin Food Sales Ltd.
Glasnevin Business Park, Ballyboggan Road, Dublin 11.
Phone: 01-8303833
Fax: 01-8301880
E-mail: info at dublinfoodsales.ie
Website: www.dublinfoodsales.ie

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ilug-request at linux.ie wrote:
> 
> Subject:
> [ILUG] Any company owners: can you sign this statement against software 
> patents, from Irish industry?
> From:
> Ciaran O'Riordan <ciaran at fsfe.org>
> Date:
> 03 Jul 2005 04:41:55 +0100
> To:
> ilug at linux.ie
> 
> To:
> ilug at linux.ie
> 
> 
> [feel free to pass this on to other people or lists]
> 
> Monday will be the last day to influence the MEPs before the software
> patents vote.  I would like to hand a short note to the Irish MEPs, asking
> them to vote to exclude software functionality from patentability, and I
> would like it to come from a list of Irish companies.
> 
> I will print this note+list on Sunday night, and _if_it_is_possible_ (which
> is unlikely in Strasbourg) I will print it again on Monday mid-day or early
> evening if more signatures have come in.
> 
> So, if you run a company in Ireland that *uses* software (not just those
> that develop software), even a 1-person company, send me your name, company
> name, and one (or more) contact detail (phone/fax/website/email) today
> (Sunday) if I can add them to this statement:
> 
>    "Statement from Irish Industry Against Patents Restricting Software
>                             Development And Use
> 
>     We urge the representatives of Ireland in the European Parliament to
>     support the Buzek-Rocard compromise amendments to the
>     Computer-Implemented Inventions directive for the following reasons:
> 
>     * We need to know that we, and our suppliers, will not be prohibited by
>       patents, from developing the software we need for our businesses.
> 
>     * we need to have certainty that we wholly own our work and can
>       distribute under the terms we choose.
> 
>     This statement is not in opposition to patents on high-tech products,
>     only to patents on software functionality such as standards, user
>     interfaces, ways of representing data, and ways of using computers for
>     business."
> 
> The parliament will debate the issue on Tuesaday and vote on Wednesday.
> 
> "Buzek-Rocard" are the two prominent MEPs that have tabled the amendments we
> want.
> 
> If you know somone that should sign this, but probably won't read email on a
> Sunday, if you can phone them to pass on the message, that could be useful.
> 
> 
> thanks.
>