[Ecommerce] Conference on sofwtare patenst and free / open source sofwtare

[Manon Ress]

From: Philippe Aigrain <philippe.aigrain@wanadoo.fr>

This is a follow-up to the FFII conference of the previous day. Includes
lunch and demonstration.

Philippe

The Greens in the European parliament invite you to an ultimate
conference on software patents:

Free Software and Software Patents


Chaired by MEPs Monica Frassoni and Eva Lichtenberger

June 2nd, 2005, from 9.30 to 13.00

European Parliament, Brussels, Room ASP 1G2,


The "Software Patents" Directive is back in the European Parliament. It
will be adopted by the Committee on Legal Affairs on June 20/21th. The
plenary session will debate and the text in second reading during the
first week of July. This conference takes place at a crucial moment of
the intense debate on the software patents.

The impact software patents would have on Free Software is one of the
key elements of the debate. Could Free/Libre/Open-Source software
(FLOSS) still flourish in the European Union if the Directive legalizes
software patents? We've gathered key representatives of the FLOSS
community, from the public sector, private sector, and civil society, to
debate this topic.

The conference will be followed by a buffet on Square du Luxembourg.
Later the same day a demonstration against software patents organized by
Association Electronique Libre and Open Standaarden will take place and
we invite all of you to attend see http://demo.ael.be
<http://demo.ael.be/> . We also recommend attending the conference on
1st June organized by FFII and 4 EPP Members of the European Parliament
see http://swpat.ffii.org/events/2005/bxl0601/
<http://swpat.ffii.org/events/2005/bxl0601/>



DRAFT PROGRAMME

9.30 Keynote speech : Richard M. Stallman, Free Software Foundation

10.00 Panel I: Patents and FLOSS

Brian Kahin, Board Member of the Public Patent Foundation

Robert Sutor, Vice President for Open Standards and Open Source
Software, IBM Corporation: IBM's patent policy

Jason Schultz Electronic Fronteer Foundation : Patent Hit List

David Sant, European Patent Office

10.55 Debate



11.15 Panel II: FLOSS-based commerce

Simon Phipps, Sun Microsystems Chief Open Source Officer

Sam Hocevar, VideoLAN : how patents are used to protect file formats

David Axmark, CEO of MySQL : Protecting IP Rights at MySQL

Jiri Gaisler, CEO of Gaisler

12.10 Debate



12.30 Keynote speech : Alan Cox, Red Hat


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