[DMCA-Activists] European Alliance of 2.000.000 SMEs Against Software Patents

[Seth Johnson]

(Forwarded from Patents list)

-----Original Message-----
From: Hartmut Pilch <address@hidden>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 17:36:18 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Patents] European Alliance of 2.000.000 SMEs against 
Software Patents

An alliance representing a total of 2 million small and medium-sized
businesses in Europe says that software patents, as legalised by the
proposed
patent directive, are harmful for SMEs.

The declaration

   
http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eubsa-swpat0202/ceapme0309/index.en.html

has been distributed to the press this morning and explained at the
press
conference in the European Parliament.

The European Commission's patent legislators have tried to legitimate
their
appraoch by claiming an "economic majority" for themselves, see

         http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eukonsult00/

Now this claim seems more doubtful than ever.  SMEs are said to account
for
about 70% of the investements and jobs in the IT sector.

-- 
Hartmut Pilch, FFII & Eurolinux Alliance              tel.
+49-89-18979927
Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation      
http://swpat.ffii.org/
200,000 votes 2000 firms against software patents   
http://noepatents.org/

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