On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 12:00 +0100, Declan McGrath wrote:
> Does that mean a No Lisbon vote is better to try to
> make/keep Europe patent free? On the other hand a Yes vote appears to
> strengthen the European parliament's hand (how much I don't exactly know) who
> tend to be more sensible on the software patent argument. Any thoughts on
> this?
Something else, though probably rather minor in practice, is the one
million signatory citizens initiate thing
http://europa.eu/lisbon_treaty/glance/index_en.htm
Send a regular "sw patents should be banned" petition to the commission
to force a public response. Though I guess every bunch of cranks in the
EU will do the same :-)
C.
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