Europeans, Tweak Your Representatives On Patents

zoobab writes "The FFII is launching a call for action to push European candidates to answer questions on Software Patents. Alan Cox has also written a open letter in which he points out that those European elections are an opportunity for each citizen to have the choice and to make the politicians listen. Get the questionnaire and send it to the candidates of your country!"

Comments

This truly seems like an uphill battle.

[JessLeah]

The public (even in Europe, where in theory the average schmuck on the streets isn't as apathetic/uncultured as Joe Sixpack here in the US) will just see this as a bunch of lunatic computer geeks rambling on about some meaningless computer-industry "thing", and will let it go in one ear and out the other.

I'm really thinking that it's impossible to fight the tide in Europe, the US, and Australia. (Southeast Asia's next.) It might very well be that the only way to live in a country that doesn't have a repressive "intellectual property" institution designed around the needs of barristers would be to start a geeks-only nation and outlaw lawyers and lawyer-like behaviour via Constitutional edict...

Any nice islands up for sale on which to build Geektopia?