[plug] Software patents

[Bennett, Phillip]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shayne O'Neill [mailto:shayne at guild.murdoch.edu.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, 10 August 2004 1:46 AM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: [plug] Software patents
> 
> 
> 
> Ok. But we really need to start writing letters to FEDERAL 
> labor (and lib,
> but those guys are probably hopeless)  MP's asking for either 
> the US patents
> stuff to be nixed, or some sort of ammendments either;-
> 1) excluding software
> 2) specific protections against using patents to protect monopolies
> (Including by proxy)
> OR
> 3) specific protections against using patents against open source.
> 
> Obviously 1 is the best go, followed by 2 then 3.
> 
> Whats perhaps needed is that letters need to be written from the
> perspective of IT PROFESSIONALS, and how it affects our industry.
> Unfortunately the only cats on the case seem to be the 
> activist scene, and
> the mainstream parties just aint gunna listen to them.


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> This is real important guys. There seems almost NO outcry in 
> australia,
> but our industry is in jepardy. And I'm not being hysterical. 
> Only *bad*
> things can come out of software patents.

Do you have some sort of template for this kind of thing?

I know I am against this, but I wouldn't know where to start with writing to
a member of parliament...  I know that if I had a template, or some sort of
starting point, It'd make it a lot easier to write and maybe get something
done.  I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels like this...

Does anyone have something that we could use as a starting point?

Thanks,
Phil.
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