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who / what are the EC council? I see if I can find the address of Adrian Sanders one of the torbay MP's and write experessing my objection to software patents, and what seems by this the total mockery of democracy we have on this subject. Paul Aaron Trevena <dclug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote :
No really, The EC Council has decided that its better to bamboozle some environment and fisheries ministers into agreeing to bypass the consensus of the EU Parliament and pass the Software Patent legislation without further discussion. http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/54199 http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/12/13/1248202.shtml?tid=155&tid=219 http://kwiki.ffii.org/Cons041213En Not good news, our government ought to be ashamed. FFII reccomend writing to a) Your MP b) Lords Sainsbury c) Peter Mandelson I have already written to my MP on the subject, as well as about ID Cards. Luckily we have plenty of Liberal Democrat MP's in cornwall who are quite sensible about these things. Others may be able to try and persuade people like Candy Atherton (Falmouth & Cambourne) that neither town will benefit from software patents and how much harm they will do. If even a handful of us write to the correct people and make our points well, combined with the press and others we can possibly shame them into doing the right thing. A. -- Aaron J Trevena - Perl Hacker, Kung Fu Geek, Internet Consultant AutoDia --- Automatic UML and HTML Specifications from Perl, C++ and Any Datasource with a Handler. http://droogs.org/autodia -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.
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