Περιλαμβάνει δύο γράμματα. Το δεύτερο (σταλμένο και αυτό από τον Philippe Aigrain) έχει τίτλο "[Freesw] FFII: "This has become our directive"". Η γενική ιδέα είναι ότι το αποτέλεσμα του ψηφίσματος δεν είναι τόσο αρνητικό όσο το παρουσιάζουν οι Reuters. σίμος -----Προωθημένο Μήνυμα----- From: Philippe Aigrain <philippe [ dot ] aigrain [ at ] wanadoo [ dot ] fr> To: freesw [ at ] conecta [ dot ] it Subject: [Freesw] Vote in Parliament on software patentability Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 16:31:21 +0200 The detailed votes (with nominal votes) are - in MSWord format ... - at: http://www.europarl.eu.int/direct/documents/fr/vote/Resultats/Mercredi/Appels nominaux 2003-09-24.doc Contrarily to what you may hear or read from Reuters, this is truly a victory against extension of patentability. Amendements have been voted that completely overturn the original meaning of the directive to make it a text that excludes from patentability any thing beyond the use fo forces of nature to control physical effects and exclude explicitly any form of information processing. In addition an amendment explicitly stating than software claims can not be accepted has been voted.For specialists 69-70-71-72 and first part of 55 + interoperability exception have gone through. I guess that the Green and GUE have voted against the global report because they are afraid that this might be manipulated in the further political and implementation proces (in particular they wanted another version of the definition of technical - amendment 55 second half instead of 6 to go through, but it was not even submitted to vote, based on erroneous statement that 69 would be equivalent). I do not know teh outcome on one important amendment (57). This is nonetheless a historical turning point: for the first time, a cross-party coalition has said no to the permanent extension of patents and other forms of restrictions to free and open knowledge. Already in 1995 the Parliament rejected a first version of the biotech patents directive, but this was a different coalition, much less clear, and shortlived. TO measure the importance, see the detailed vote on amendment 55 first half voted 300 to 223 with the PSE divided 2/3-1/3 and the PPE divided 1/3-2/3 The news releases announce the vote as a victory for patentability (see Reuters). Let's hope that the truth will reach even the news. Now let's get ready for the fights in Council. The voted amendments are clearly unacceptable for those countries where the patent lobbies have key influence, as well as for the Commission, so they will do anything to get rid of them. Philippe Aigrain www.sopinspace.com/~aigrain/en/ ==================================== Από: Philippe Aigrain <philippe [ dot ] aigrain [ at ] wanadoo [ dot ] fr> Απάντηση Σε: mailing list dedicated to free software/libre software discussion <freesw [ at ] conecta [ dot ] it> Προς: freesw [ at ] conecta [ dot ] it, Maurice Ronai <ronai [ at ] cybercable [ dot ] fr>, Laurence Vandewalle <lvandewalle [ at ] europarl [ dot ] eu [ dot ] int>, Bernard Lang <Bernard [ dot ] Lang [ at ] inria [ dot ] fr> Αντίγραφο:: Hartmut Pilch <phm [ at ] a2e [ dot ] de> Θέμα: [Freesw] FFII: "This has become our directive" Ημερομηνία: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:32:20 +0200 * From Slashdot Tell you how great this is a victory. Harmut is reputed for accepting dirty compromises (by the way, bravo Harmut for all the great work). Please do anything to rectify the mad misinformation of REUTERS and other news release sources. FFII: "This has become our directive"* (Score:5, Interesting) by infolib (618234) <http://slashdot.org/%7Einfolib> Alter Relationship <http://yro.slashdot.org/zoo.pl?op=check&type=friend&uid=618234> on Wednesday September 24, @10:29AM (#7043650 <http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=79769&cid=7043650>) *Europarl votes for Real Limits on Patentability* FFII News -- For Immediate Release -- Please Redistribute See http://swpat.ffii.org/#news [ffii.org] Now we will have to see whether the European Commission is committed to "harmonisation and clarification" or only to patent owner interests. Yesterday's threats uttered by Bolkestein against the European Parliament suggest the latter. The detailed results are available on our site http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/plen0923/ [ffii.org] It will now be our job to help the European Parliament assert itself against attempts by Bolkestein and patent lawyers wearing the hat of national governments to crush the directive project. The current text has some remaining contraditions in it, but basically the thrust has been turned around. It has become our directive which we must help the European Parliament to defend. This is also a question of the European Parliament's role in an emerging democratic Europe. On the whole this is very good news for the EU. -- Hartmut Pilch, FFII & Eurolinux Alliance tel. +49-89-18979927 Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation http://swpat.ffii.org/ 270,000 votes 2000 firms against software patents http://noepatents.org/