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MEPs petition European Parliament switch to Open Source
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| A petition to make the European Parliament switch its IT systems to Open
| Source has so far gotten the support of a hundred MEPs.
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| For the petition to be adopted, more than half the members of the European
| Parliament should sign the document. This means the petition needs some two
| hundred more signatures.
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http://osor.eu/news/meps-petition-european-parliament-switch-to-open-source
Recent:
Open Parliament
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| Citizens and stakeholder groups should not have to use the software of a
| single company in order to communicate with their elected officials or
| participate in the legislative process.
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| All companies should be given the chance to compete freely for contracts to
| supply ICT services to the European Parliament.
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http://www.openparliament.eu/
[ffii] McCreevy wants to legalise Software Patents via a US-EU patent treaty
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| Brussels, 13 May 2008 -- European Commissioner McCreevy is pushing for a
| bilateral patent treaty with the United States. This Tuesday 13 May in
| Brussels, White House and European representatives will try to adopt a
| tight roadmap for the signature of a EU-US patent treaty by the end of
| the year. Parts of the proposed treaty will contain provision on
| software patents, and could legalise them on both sides of the Atlantic.
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| "TEC talks are the current push for software patents. The US want to
| eliminate the higher standards of the European Patent Convention. The
| bilateral agenda is dictated by multinationals gathered in the
| Transatlantic Economic Business Dialogue (TABD). When you have a look
| who is in the Executive Board of the TABD, you find not a single
| European SME in there", says Benjamin Henrion, a Brussels based patent
| policy specialist.
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| The Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC) which comprises EU and US high
| level representatives put a substantive harmonisation of patent law on
| its agenda. Substantive patent law covers what is patentable or not. The
| attempt to impose the low US standards on Europe via the Substantive
| Patent Law Treaty (SPLT) process utterly failed at the World
| Intellectual Property Organisation. Also progress in the WIPO B+
| subgroup (without development nations) could not be reached.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/282000/
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