[Random-bits] german CD party wants 2-yr moratorium on software patents

[James Love]

Subject: german CD party wants 2-yr moratorium on software patents
   Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 12:02:11 -0400
  From: t byfield <tbyfield@panix.com>
    To: Jamie Love <love@cptech.org>

hi, jamie--

this just floated by, courtesy of a mailing list maintained by
keith dawson, the editor of TBTF <http://www.tbtf.com/>; this
is all i've heard about this turn of events, but it seems like
a Good Thing.

chers,
t

  From: PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>
  To: patents@aful.org
  Subject: [Patents] leaders of all German parties against swpat

  Today the speaker of the Christian Democrats announced their
  position: request of a 2 years moratorium on art 52 and
  commencement of discussion about a sui generis protection scheme.

  The positions of the Green and Liberal party were announced earlier and
  are even more uncompromisingly anti-swpat.

  There is no official position of the Social Democrats, but several of
  their opinion leaders and the people in the ministery of economics have
  expressed either an anti-swpat or a moratorium position.

  -phm

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