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That's the case, but politicians don't see it. Hence, we need to educate them. In the UK, there are some sites specifically about the situation: FFII have a UK page, and then there is softwarepatents.co.uk. I imagine at some point there will be some kind of co-ordinated campaign to educate people in time for the vote in the Autumn.

The proposed directive was written in a Word file, and the original author information appeared in the metadata - that's how they know the BSA were involved.

I thought Arlene's response was more anti-Free/Libre/Open Source Software than anything I've seen in a long time, and it's bizarre because rms and Nick Hill didn't raise that issue at all. Her article wasn't factual in any way, shape or form - she said she was against business methods, for example, but offered no actual example of actions which back that up - in fact, her previous actions indicate she's in favour.

Useful URLs for people in the UK: FFII UK, More info on software patents. We can still stop them putting these things in place.