[ANSOL-geral] [Fwd: [ffii] Unanimous Bundestag (German Parliament) vote against software patents]

[Rui Miguel Seabra]

Para os que dizem que só se opões às patentes de software os partidos de
exterma esquerda, que me dizem ao voto *unânime* do Parlamento Alemão?

São todos perigosos radicais extremistas de esquerda, certamente.

Apelo a quem tenha contactos com o PSD e com o PP para que ajudem a
fazê-los compreender o problema e a oporem-se às patentes de software,
em vez de apresentarem argumentação completamente e absurdamente
irracional como "ter porque os EUA, Reino Unido e Japão têm".

Rui

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PRESS RELEASE FFII -- [ Germany / Economy / Computing ]
Unanimous Bundestag (German Parliament) vote against software
patents
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Berlin, 17 February-- The German Bundestag unanimously passed a
motion which strongly attacks the Council version of the European
software patents directive. As such, the German Bundestag joins
growing the club of national Parliaments which have spoken out
against software patents. These actions make the Council's attempts
to continue trying to push it through look more desperate and
unworldly by the day.

The Council of Ministers version was generally considered to be
completely inappropriate: "I think that here in the German Bundestag
we were able to quickly reach an agreement about the fact that the
state of the discussion at the EU level leaves many central
questions open", stated MP Dirk Manzewski (SPD). MP Rainer Funke
(FDP) elaborated: "The necessary and meaningful unification of
patenting practice should not be allowed to lead to an extension of
substantive patent law."

MP Dr. Günter Krings (CDU/CSU) emphasized that a directive "that is
worth its name", needs a concrete definition of technicality and
must exclude program claims. He was happy to be in time with the
Bundestag resolution:

"When we dealt with this issue in the Bundestag about four months
ago, probably nobody expected that the EU Council of Ministers would
not yet have passed the Political Agreement negotiated in May. It is
rare for the passing of a resolution draft to be postponed this
often. The directive draft has become a buck that EU Council
presidencies pass to their successors. After the Dutch government
found that nut too hard to crack, it is now up to the Luxemburgers."

In addition to the Dutch Tweede Kamer, the Spanish Senado and the
Bundestag votes, he also praised the European Parliament:

"Our MEP colleagues have now also opted for a restart of the
legislative process in the European Parliament and to search for a
constructive solution. The German government should take this motion
at heart, as it is notably also supported by the representatives of
the EPP. Now it's time for the Minister of Justice base its
negotiations in Brussels on the interest of software developers and
their employees. We are waiting for deeds." 

Manzewski ("if even I as SPD legal specialist had to swallow when
reading some of the formulations ...") and Krings thanked the
employees of all groups for their help during the negotiation
process, namely Mr Nermin Fazlic and Mrs Petra Marmann (SPD), Mr
Oliver Passek and Mrs Franziska Vilmar (Greens), Mr Ole Jani (FDP)
and Mr Jörn Henkel (CDU). It is thanks to their cooperation, "that
German speaks with one voice in Brussels" (MP Jerzy Montag, Greens).

MP Jörg Tauss (SPD) said: "Incidentally, this refutes an old
prejudice that computer scientists generally are apolitical or
technocratic. They are not at all 'specialists without spirit' in
the way Max Weber had predicted for the outcome of the societal
rationalisation process. They are highly qualified, discerning and
committed often young persons standing up for their convictions 
and taking part in political processes."

"The present motion especially intends to partially correct a
deficit of the Brussels conciliations. The central concern for me is
the obstinate ignorance that Brussels has shown to the real European
and German economical interests in the software field. It is the
SMEs that are the vectors of innovation in Germany's and Europe's IT
field", he added.

Holger Blasum (FFII) comments: "Past Tuesday, entrepreneurs and
software developers were looking for signals from the Ministry of
Justice when demonstrating at its Berlin Mohrenstraße site. The
restart option submitted by the Conference of Presidents yesterday
opens new doors. All groups in the Bundestag deserve praise for
their clear position. In so far the government is concerned, I 
follow Dr. Krings: 'We are waiting for deeds.' The possibilities to
act are plentiful now." 

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Background
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* "Intergroup motion against software patents in the Bundestag",
 http://wiki.ffii.org/Bundestag050217De
* "Conference of Group Presidents in the European Parliament
 demands restart of the software patent directive",
 http://wiki.ffii.org/Restart050217En 

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Contact
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Hartmut Pilch, phm  ffii.org, +49-89-18979927 (German/English/French)
Holger Blasum, blasum  ffii.org, +49-174-7313590 (German/English)
Christian Cornelssen, ccorn  cs.tu-berlin.de (German/English)
Andre Rebentisch, arebenti  web.de (German/English)

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