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Companhias Polacas and Parties in Sejm 2004-05-10 call on government to oppose Software Patents, Support European Parliament
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Organisers
ISOC.org.pl, FFII.org.pl
Participants, Resolution
300 participants from Poland adopted a resolution calling government to support European Parliament's stance and oppose Irish Presidency proposal, with only 3 votes against and 4 abstentions.
All software companies, associations and political parties are against software patents.
Morning Speeches
Marek Balicki
social democrat senator, former government minister
Software patents harmful to polish economy, government should support European Parliament position on software patents and throw in Poland's full weight against Council working group.
dismayed to see that government representative didn't come.
Lukasz Jachowicz
ISOC.org.pl
Magda Mosiewicz
chairwoman of Polish Greens
broader context of software patents: ensuring that megacorporations don't dominate the world.
Reinier Bakels
IVIR.nl, author of Parliament-commissioned study on software patents
says:
- some general misconceptions about "intellectual property" and patents.
- public choice theory explains why political feedback mechanisms tend to break, ffii etc needed as corrective
- Council black box operations violate basic constitutional principles
Hartmut Pilch
FFII
- program claims as the neuralgic point (history of the debate)
- Poland still innocent
- Council Union of Europe = svazek radiecki = sovjetsky sojus, need solidarnosc
Richard Stallman
- GNU.org
Press Conference
Afternoon Speeches (Stakeholders)
Software companies
Andrzej Odyniec (Macrosoft)
CEO of Macrosoft
introduces a mathematical model which explains why the patent system does not work for software, stresses that for him as an informatics pioneer and CEO of the older generation beliefs are unimportant, the important question is whether the system works. It doesn't, and the model explains why.
Jaroslaw Kowalski (Novell)
Novell opposes software patents, is forced to obtain patents for defensive purposes.
Piotr B ? (SME)
Copyright yes, patents no.
Adam Dawidziuk (7 Bulls)
Copyright yes, patents no.
Waclaw Iszkowski (PIIT)
Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications
- Dr. eng
- president of PIIT
- experience shows that software patents are stupid and harmful, agree with previous speakers
- BUT it is not enough to ban them in EU, solutions for US, JP, CN, IN etc must also be found to ensure that European companies are really safe when they publish things on the Internet and won't fined by US courts upon entry to the US. Political efforts are needed to protect EU interests in an international environment where in the mid-term software patents are still predominant.
Polish Authors' Society
- Copyright yes, patents no
Jozef Pinior (Polish Social Democrats)
- represented by his assistant Radoslaw Tadajewski ( www.tadajewski.com )
has started campaign page against software patents
Party website has started an action to mobilise people to write to the Polish government.
Robert Jezelski
represents Polish Greens
- will campaign against software patents in coming weeks, Hartmut's pun about "soviet union" is unfortunately a dire reality, our basic freedoms are being lost thanks to intellectual crookery legislation at EU level
Adrian Zamberg
- junior coalition partner, political party of the deputy prime minister
- has called on government to oppose software patents in Council
PIS
- sent letter to the prime minister asking him to oppose software patents, support European Parliament
Letter by Chairman of Parliamentary Club to Prime Minister
Sylvain Perchaud
Case Example: Forgent going after shareware companies who use JPEG
Laurence Vandewalle
- research policy advisor of Greens/EFA in European Parliament
- in second reading, only JURI will report
- as before, JURI will be dominated by servants of big business and lawyer world
- they will present a further disguised, even more hypocritical version of the Council proposal, pretending that negotiations and compromises are going on
- a massive effort is needed to make it clear to other !MEPs, especially newly elected ones, that JURI leaders cannot be trusted
- in a third reading, things may become still more difficult, but we may at least be able to work without a JURI rapporteur
- We can lose in a few months and will need years to win.
Jan Macek
Konrad Wawruch
- Linux users are potential small entrepreneurs. My business is being threatened by the EU Council, I'll look for a place to emigrate if this goes through.
Hartmut Pilch (closing words)
Lukasz Jachowicz
- We have copyright law, so we don't need patents.
- closing words
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