descr: Members of the European Parliament are coming back to work on monday August 25th. It is the last week before the vote on the Software Patent Directive Proposal. We are organising a conference and street rally wednesday the 27th. Some of our friends will moreover be staying in the parliament for several days. Time to work decide on submission of amendments to the software patent directive proposal is running out. FFII has proposed one set of amendments that stick as closely as possible to the original proposal while debugging and somewhat simplifying it. An alternative small set of amendments would %(q:cut the crap) and rewrite the directive from scratch. We present and explain the possible approaches. title: 2003/08/25-9 BXL: Software Patent Directive Amendments ceu: Schedule for 2003/08/27 kiam: When kilok: Where kitem: Subject eoa: Performance aom: Pantomime alo: Balloons peh: Speeches ron: Conference pae: Hosts pae2: Speakers icc: Chair Foundation of Mathematics and Computer Science Nijmegen University lep: Patentability of Software: a perspective from a computer science RaC: The JURI Proposal: Clarification by Confusion? emn: Ticketing System Patents in Europe enW: president of FFII ecs: professor of computer science WMW: Letter Exchanges with McCarthy in the Guardian and elsewhere tWM: Netzwerk Neue Medien nmW: Patent Policymaking in Berlin aaz: Patents: a Real Risk for Software Industry and Citizens in Europe WnW: Hints on how to participate in the demo, needed equipment on site, who provides what, etc osj: Holger's editable auxiliary pages for the 2003/08/27 demo and related events. Includes hints on hotel/hostel rooms, t-shirts, banners etc # Local Variables: ; # coding: utf-8 ; # srcfile: /ul/prg/src/mlht/app/swpat/swpatpenmi.el ; # mailto: mlhtimport@a2e.de ; # passwd: XXXX ; # feature: swpatdir ; # dok: swpparl038 ; # txtlang: en ; # End: ;