Fine Gael supports Software Patents

Posted: June 10th, 2004 | Author: jadearama | 8 Comments »

According to an email I received today from Gay Mitchell, the Fine Gael candidate in the European elections, he supports the government’s position on advocating software patents. So that’s another person you shouldn’t bother voting for tomorrow.

Please feel free to email Gay Mitchell at gay.mitchell@oireachtas.ie to tell him that you disagree with his position. You should explain that it will do nothing to promote the ‘enterprise and reward‘ values which Fine Gael is supposed to espouse. In fact, it stifles creativity and innovation in the software industry.

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Dear Antoin,

I have already supported the Irish Presidency position on this at the Oireachtas
Committee on European Affairs which I Chair.

Regards,
Gay Mitchell T.D.

8 Comments on “Fine Gael supports Software Patents”

  1. 1 Justin Mason said at 8:34 pm on June 10th, 2004:

    Well, that’s disappointing :( but hardly surprising — the pro-patent side have been bending the ears of our politicians for quite a while, much longer than we have.

  2. 2 FRLinux said at 11:22 pm on June 10th, 2004:

    Worrying would be more the term if you consider the pressure of lobbying which has been successfully applied on those people, future of free software doesn’t look bright at all …

  3. 3 Antoin O Lachtnain said at 12:16 am on June 11th, 2004:

    Well, send your email and make your point. No harm following up with a phone call and letter too.

  4. 4 David Stewart said at 12:37 am on June 11th, 2004:

    So who’s left to vote for then?

  5. 5 Ruairi Newman said at 8:44 am on June 11th, 2004:

    From Ciaran O Riordan’s recent mail to ILUG:

    +-+-++
    |Area |Vote #1 |and #2 |
    +-+-++
    |East |Avril Doyle |Eoin Dubsky |
    |South |Brian Crowley |Gerard Collins |
    |North West |Sean O’Neactain | |
    |Dublin |Patrica McKenna |Ivana Bacik |
    +-+-++

  6. 6 Ruairi Newman said at 8:45 am on June 11th, 2004:

    Bloody formatting.

  7. 7 Justin Mason said at 5:46 pm on June 11th, 2004:

    Here’s a bizarre one — FG’s left hand don’t know what the right hand is doing:

    ‘From: Christian van den Bosch cc: ilug.linux.ie
    Now, the funny thing is I just got a letter from FG attaching an anti-swpat press release of Avril Doyle’s from last year and saying that’s the party line…’

    Oops! ;)

  8. 8 Christian van den Bosch said at 5:43 pm on June 15th, 2004:

    Here’re the letter and attachment…

    http://4c.ucc.ie/~cbosch/dscf1032.jpg
    http://4c.ucc.ie/~cbosch/dscf1033.jpg

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