Second Round of EU Patent Fight, Coming Up

An anonymous reader writes "Seems that last fall's victory over EU patent regulations was just round one. The current draft rejects all clarifying amendments made by the European Parliament, allowing direct patentability of computer programs. A net-wide protest is being organized on April 14."

Comments

Re:As has been said before.

[flossie]

If you would really like to promote change, please take the time to write or call officials.

e-mail works fine. Most of the ones I write to (we have 8 Scottish MEPs) are generally happy to receive and reply to e-mails.

time for me to once again...

[cribb]

put up a link to

http://petition.eurolinux.org/

on my webpage. also it looks like they'll be

organizing a demonstration on 14th of april

in brussels.

Re:Need to keep hammering

[flossie]

It may be true that the majority of people don't have an opinion on software patents, but that also means that it is a fair bet that they are not writing to their representatives about the issue. Therefore, it is up to those of us that do care to make enough noise.