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Software Patent Directive Decision 2003/08/23: Voting Recommendations for MEPs

If you want to keep the sphere of logics free from patents while allowing patentability of new washing machines and mobile phones, regardless of whether a computer program is involved in them, you'd better vote according to these recommendations.
  1. Annotated Links
  2. Questions, Things To Do, How you can Help

1. Annotated Links

->Who voted how?
Analysis of the voting behavior, sorted by parties and closeness to FFII recommendations. Green means in favor of freedom and innovation, red in favor of red tape and litigation.
->FFII Voting Recommendations
->Greens/EFA Voting Recommendations
->GUE/NGL (Left) Voting Recommendations
->ELDR (Liberals) Voting Recommendations
->Kauppi (PPE) Voting Recommendations
->Rocard (PSE) Voting Recommendations
->McCarthy (PSE) Voting Recommendations
->Wuermeling (PPE) Voting Recommendations
->UEN Voting Recommendations
->EDD Voting Recommendations
->Analysis of MEP voting
Report for all MEPs from Belgium. If they completely followed the FFII voting list, they get 100%. A similar analysis is under way for all MEPs. First results show that many EPP deputies followed Kauppi (against software patents) rather than Wuermeling (pro software patents).
->voting data csv file
raw input for all kinds of analyses and presentations, with some scripts by Tapani Tarvainen.
->Who voted how
Tabular listing based on MSWord original from the Europarl website.
->Europarl 2003/09 Software Patent Directive Amendments: Real vs Fake Limits
detailed analysis of the amendments.

2. Questions, Things To Do, How you can Help

?!?How you can help us fight patent inflation
?!?get hold of missing voting lists
We still don't have those of Wuermeling, UEN and EDD.
?!?produce HTML versions of the voting lists
This can be done with OpenOffice on the basis of the MSWord versions.

see Tar.gz2 package of the MSWord versions

Contact plen0309 at ffii org if you intend to do this work.

?!?Produce more databases and reports to visualise the behavior of the groups and MEPs
see analysis.html

In particular we need two tabular listings:

  1. amendment (e.g. "Am72"): language (e.g. "fr"): text
  2. amendment: MEP (e.g. "mrocard"): vote (e.g. "+")
?!?Prepare for next year's EP elections
We should bring the subject of IT infrastructure policy into the election campaign.
[ Europarl 2003/09 Software Patent Directive Amendments: Real vs Fake Limits | Conditions for Approval of the Software Patent Directive Proposal | Software Patent Directive Decision 2003/08/23: Voting Recommendations for MEPs | Plenary Debate 03/09/23 | Europarl 2003-09-24: Amended Software Patent Directive ]
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