EU Voters Take Note:
The above page provides links that may help European Union citizens determine which candidates are most supportive of information freedom. It provides analyses of the Parties in various Member States, and lets you see how the Parties and individual MEPs voted on the Software Patent Directive this past September.
In a world of ubiquitous computing, candidates who take an enlightened position on software patents are most likely to understand the profound extent to which unconscionable exclusive rights policies affect our lives and the wellbeing of society. It is not an overstatement to say that the diverse, pervasive effects of policies that allow private parties to lay claim to naked information and abstract knowledge, easily make those policies among the most critical, central issues we face today.
For more information on software patents in Europe, start with these links:
http://swpat.ffii.org/log/intro/index.en.html http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/plen0924/index.en.html http://kwiki.ffii.org/?Intro040608En
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