[ILUG] MEPs responses

[Daniel Goldsmith]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:15:17 +0000, John Madden <maddenj+ilug at skynet.ie> wrote:
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> On (10/03/05 13:29), Daniel Goldsmith didst pronounce:
> > > Simon Coveney will be voting against software patents. I am awaiting his
> > > permission to publish his response on the KDE site.
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> > I thought it was cute that Simon Coveney's response consisted of a MS
> > Word Document attached to a verbatim copy of the mail sent to him.
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> All in all, I found him much more on our side than Brian Crowley. He
> also replied to all my questions. Even if he didn't have an answer (like
> to the question above), he said he would check it out.

I would just like to agree with the above - Simon Coveney seems much
more aware of the issues than Brian Crowley, and he seems much more
open to being consulted on the issue.

I was only pointing out the slight irony that an issue which has
really become a free/open source one, with various allegations of a
certain US-based company having bought out the representatives and
bureaucracy of the EU,  being addressed by an MEP using the
proprietary package supplied to himby that bureaucracy  to do his job.

Regards,

Daniel