jlc Posted September 10, 2003 Report Share Posted September 10, 2003 Any of our Euro friends going to go? http://lwn.net/Articles/48549/ From: Henrion Benjamin <bh@udev.org> To: lwn@lwn.net Subject: Press Conference SOFTWARE PATENTS : THE CHOICE IS YOURS Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 20:49:16 +0200 (CEST) Press Conference SOFTWARE PATENTS : THE CHOICE IS YOURS Wednesday 17 September 16.00 -18.30 European Parliament Brussels Room PHS 5B001 15.00 Press conference in briefing room 16:00 Introduction by Daniel Cohn-Bendit MEP Chair of the Green/Efa Group in EP 16:10 Presentation of the petition of the scientists : Dr. Alan Mycroft, Cambridge* (http://www.math.chalmers.se/~bengt/petition.pdf) 16:30 Presentation of the letter of the economists: Dr. Luc Soete, Founder of Merit (Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/technologie/0,39020809,39116150,00.htm) 16:45 European consumer's point of view: Jim Murray, Director of the BEUC 17:00 Tim Berners-Lee, Director World Wide Web Consortium, founder of the www online statement, debate and chat (videoconference)* 17:30 Administration that switched to open source software (Germany) Jens M Clhaus Member City Council city of Munich 17:45 CEO of European SMEs testimony about software patents : Hakon Wium Lie, CEO of OPERA (web browser Opera, used on all platforms, also used on cell-phones and PDAs for eg. Motorola) www.opera.com 18:00 Debate 18:30 Conclusion http://www.greens-efa.org *Translation is available in all official EU languages Participation is free however it is necessary to register by Monday 15.09.03 by email with lvandewalle@europarl.eu.int in order to get an access badge to EP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted September 11, 2003 Report Share Posted September 11, 2003 Not me, i can't spare the time :( Still, being a press conference we will get to read the full story soon after. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted September 11, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2003 Removing [x]announcement and letting this fade to black like SCO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Posted September 11, 2003 Report Share Posted September 11, 2003 It's too far away ..... ( 100 km = ~70 miles ) :) and I don't have enough time.....:) my vacation ends 29nd september :)... I'll see ..Some of my year went to the protest in Brussels. end August maybe I'll go also to one of them.... To do something about it (I find the patents bad...) so the least I could do is writing letters to all of my MEPS....But I reallyd on't want it so mayeb I'll g to on of the protests.... btw....100 km is quite far here..not really but quite... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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