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I sslug.itpolitik, skrev Niels Vestergaard Jensen:
> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 09:59:47 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Hartmut Pilch
>
< ca. 1/3 oversat til dansk efter min beste evne, nedenunder. Giv gerne
en hånd. >
2000 IT chefer siger Nej til EU software patenter
call for rejection of McCarthy software patent directive proposal (fwd)
2000 IT bosses say NO to EU software patents, call for rejection of
McCarthy software patent directive proposal
Brussels, Munich, Amsterdam 2003/06/22
For immediate Release
En "Underskrifts indsamling for et Frit Europa uden Software Patenter"
har samlet mere en 150.000 underskrifter. Blande underskriverne er mere
en 2.000 firmaer og ledere og 25.000 udviklere an ingeniører fra alle
hjørner af den Europæiske information og telekommunikations industri,
og mere end 2.000 forskere og 180 advokater. Firmaer som Siemems, IBM,
Alcatel og Nokia var i toppen af listen over de personer som ønskede at
beskytte friheden til at lave programmer imod hvad de ser som "patent
landgrab". I øjeblikket er patent politikken fra nogle af de firmaer
statig domineret af deres patent kontorer, som har lavet et intenst
lobbyarbejde i Europa Parlamentet for at støtte et forslag der tillader
"computer implementerede opfindelser" ( patent ord for "software", dvs.
algoritmer og forretningsmetoder beskrevet i termer af almindelig
computer udstyr ), som "rapporteur", Engelsk Labour MEP Arlene McCarthy,
bakket op af "patent eksperter" from den socialistiske og konservative
blok, forsøger at presse gennem Europa Parlamentet d. 30 Juni, kun 13
dage efter hun havde vundet afstemningen i "Legal Affairs Commite (JURI)".
A "Petition for a Free Europe without Software Patents" has gained
more than 150000 signatures. Among the supporters are more than 2000
company owners and chief executives and 25000 developpers and
engineers from all sectors of the European information and
telecommunication industries, as well as more than 2000 scientists and
180 lawyers. Companies like Siemens, IBM, Alcatel and Nokia lead the
list of those whose researchers and developpers want to protect
programming freedom and copyright property against what they see as a
"patent landgrab". Currently the patent policy of some of these
companies is still dominated by their patent departments, who have
intensively lobbied the European Parliament to support a proposal to
allow patentability of "computer-implemented inventions" (patent newspea=
k
for "software", i.e. algorithms and business methods described in
terms of generic computing equipment), which the rapporteur, UK Labour M=
EP
Arlene McCarthy, backed by "patent experts" from the socialist and
conservative blocks, is trying to rush through the European Parliament
on June 30, just 13 days after she had won the vote in the Legal
Affairs Committe (JURI).
Introduktion
-> [11]Eurolinux underskriftsindsamling for et Software Patent Frit
Europa.
-> [12]FFII: Software Patenter i Europa
I de sidste på er har det Europæiske Patent Kontor ( EPO ),
imod den eksisterende lov, tillade mere en 20.000 patenter
på computer programmer, eller, i patent sprog "Computer
implemeterede opfindelser" ( her mangler lidt ) Nu presser
Europa's patent samfunde på for at ændre denne praksis til lov.
Europa's programmører og borgere løber en stor risiko ved dette.
Her er der dokumentatio, startende med et kort overblik og
de sidste nyheder.
Introduction
-> [11]Eurolinux Petition for a Software Patent Free Europe
-> [12]FFII: Software Patents in Europe
For the last few years the European Patent Office (EPO) has,
contrary to the letter and spirit of the existing law, granted
more than 20000 patents on computer programs, or, in patent
=09 newspeak, "computer-implemented inventions", i.e. rules of
organisation and calculation framed in terms of generic
computing equipment. Now Europe's patent community is pressing
to codify this practise into a new law. Europe's programmers
and citizens are facing considerable risks. Here you find the
basic documentation, starting from a short overview and the
latest news.
=== Her er jeg nået til ===
The European Parliament parliament's plenary will decide on a draft
report on the European Commission's software patentability directive
proposal COM(2002)92. Hartmut Pilch explains on behalf of Eurolinux,
an alliance of associations and companies from all European countries
and all sectors of the European software industry:
If the European Parliament accepts this report, even with
amendments, it will not only find itself in complete contradiction
with public opinion, as expressed in the largest online petition on
IT matters which the world has seen so far. It would also be in
contradiction with its own proclaimed aims. The result of passing
the McCarthy Directive Proposal would be that "Amazon One Click
Shopping" indisputably becomes a patentable invention, and that
more than 20000 broad and trivial software and business method
patents, which have been granted by the European Patent Office
(EPO) against the letter and spirit of the written law, will no
longer be contestable in court, except with rock-solid evidence of
prior art.
"Now it is up to the European Parliament to decide on a highly
controversial proposal for a directive for software patents. The JURI
proposal aims at improving clarity. It should have at last defined
clearly what is patentable and what not. But in reality it is a bunch
of magic formulas that even legal experts do not understand. In
particular for small and medium sized software developers it is a
disaster. A patent infringement claim can ruin such a company. It is
to be hoped that the European Parliament understands this if they vote
about the proposed directive in a few days." says Reinier Bakels from
the Insitute for Information Law of Amsterdam University, author of a
parliament-ordered study, which JURI chose to ignore completely. Dr.
Karl Friedrich Lenz, professor of European Law in Tokyo, comments:
If the European Parliament follows JURI in ignoring public opinion
and all scientific studies, we will see large license payments from
the European to the American software industry, lots of litigation
based on software patents, Internet patents and business method
patents, and some very unfavorable effects for open source
software. And introducing a large number of new monopoly rights in
the information society sector certainly won't help with the EU
strategic goal "to become the most competitive and knowledge-based
economy in the world."
see also [13]JURI votes for Fake Limits on Patentability
Statistics of signatories
By profession / position in company
Since the wording in the entry "profession" is free for everyone to
chose, aggregation was difficult. We can only state minimal numbers
here.
position number (minimum)
company owner, chief executive (CEO), managing director 2000
CTO, head of IT, head of R&D 2100
programmer, software/system architect/engineer/designer/analyst 23000
scientist, researcher etc 2600
professor (mainly computer science, mathematics, physics) 400
lawyer 180
By country
Germany 29773
France 27047
Spain 13120
Italy 9673
United Kingdom 9385
Denmark 5141
Netherlands 5041
Belgium 4587
Sweden 4355
Poland 3195
Austria 3262
Switzerland 3090
Finnland 2732
Czechia 1503
Norway 1497
Hungary 1386
Portugal 1128
Ireland 911
Greece 563
Luxemburg 287
By company
Below you find the number of employees of some major companies and
institutions who signed the petition. Note that 2/3 of the signatories
did not specify their employer.
comany
[17]Siemens 231
[18]CNRS 220
[19]IBM 156
[20]INRIA 114
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young 108
[21]Alcatel 99
France Telecom 97
[22]Ericsson 94
Epita 92
Hewlett Packard (HP) 85
Helsinki University of Technology 78
[23]Nokia 74
RWTH Aachen (Aachen Technical University) 78
SuSE 67
ETH Zurich (Zurich Technical University) 61
Deutsche Telekom AG 59
[24]Sun Microsystems 58
University of Cambridge 56
[25]Philips 54
University of Helsinki 53
EDS 50
Compaq 42
[26]SAP 44
ST Microelectronics 42
Telefonica 31
Steria 30
Politecnico di Milano 29
CERN 29
Oxford University 29
Motorola 29
ABB 28
Renault 28
Lucent 27
Nortel 37
Alc=F4ve 26
ATOS Origin 59
Belgacom 25
Getronics 25
Transiciel 23
Nevrax 23
Red Hat 32
Cisco Systems 21
innominate 21
[27]Thales 21
DaimlerChrysler 20
altran 20
T-Systems 20
EADS 19
BMW 19
BULL 19
mobile.de 18
Accenture 18
Sema Group 17
Air France 16
Alplog 15
Sony 15
Telecom 15
Lufthansa 15
Schlumberger 14
[28]Microsoft 14
Andersen Consulting 13
Oracle 13
Intel 13
Amadeus 13
Epitech 13
Vodafone 13
AT&T 12
British Telecom 12
Unisys 12
NCC 11
debis Systemhaus 21
Infineon 11
Mobilix 11
Fujitsu Siemens Computers 11
KPNQwest 10
Atrid 10
Easter-eggs 10
Bosch 10
SOT Finnish Software Engineering Ltd. 10
Media Contact
mail:
media at ffii org
phone:
Hartmut Pilch +49-89-18979927
More Contacts to be supplied upon request
About the Eurolinux Alliance -- www.eurolinux.org
The EuroLinux Alliance for a Free Information Infrastructure is an
open coalition of commercial companies and non-profit associations
united to promote and protect a vigourous European Software Culture
based on copyright, open standards, open competition and open source
software such as Linux. Corporate members or sponsors of EuroLinux
develop or sell software under free, semi-free and non-free licenses
for operating systems such as GNU/Linux, MacOS or MS Windows.
About the FFII -- www.ffii.org
The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) is a
non-profit association registered in Munich, which is dedicated to the
spread of data processing literacy. FFII supports the development of
public information goods based on copyright, free competition, open
standards. More than 200 members, 180 companies and 12000 individual
supporters have entrusted the FFII to act as their voice in public
policy questions in the area of software property law.
URL of this Press Release
http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/epet0622/index.en.html
Annotated Links
->
-> [29]CEC/ETLA 2002: Technology policy in the telecommunication
sector -- Market responses and economic impacts
This study may explain while so many employees of telecom
giants and related companies support the Petition for a Free
Europe without Software Patents.
_________________________________________________________________
References
11. http://petition.eurolinux.org/
12. http://swpat.ffii.org/index.en.html
13. http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/juri0617/index.en.html
17. http://swpat.ffii.org/players/siemens/index.en.html
18. http://www.cnrs/
19. http://swpat.ffii.org/players/ibm/index.en.html
20. http://www.inria.fr/
21. http://swpat.ffii.org/players/alcatel/index.en.html
22. http://swpat.ffii.org/players/ericsson/index.en.html
23. http://swpat.ffii.org/players/nokia/index.en.html
24. http://swpat.ffii.org/players/sun/index.en.html
25. http://swpat.ffii.org/players/philips/index.en.html
26. http://swpat.ffii.org/players/sap/index.de.html
27. http://swpat.ffii.org/players/thales/index.en.html
28. http://swpat.ffii.org/players/microsoft/index.en.html
29. http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/cec-telecom02/index.en.html
30. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html
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