[Free-sklyarov-uk] An Open Letter On Software Patents and EU Election (fwd)

[Tom Chance]

On Saturday 05 Jun 2004 22:08, James Heald wrote:
> Andrew Duff does at least at a philosophical level seem to appreciate
> some of the undesirability of software patenting -- he did genuinely
> seem concerned, enough to say he was going to add the issue to various
> points he was going to raise at a meeting he has scheduled soon with
> Lord Sainsbury.
>
> He seemed to hold Lord S in some regard, as somebody with some real
> judgement, genuinely his own man, not just a creature of his civil
> servants.

Holding Lord S in a high regard has to be his first mistake ;-) But in my 
contacts, both in letters and face-to-face, with Duff, he always seemed 
sympathetic, but never really went much further than that. When we pressed 
him to contact the Council, he was quite evasive. I'm glad to hear he's going 
to at least discuss the issue with Lord S.

To the people who know more about Lib Dems than me -- would it be likely that 
he might start leading the Lib Dems a little more towards a proper anti-swpat 
standpoint, rather than the effectively-pro-swpat view they hold now? 
Assuming he's re-elected of course...

Regards,
Tom

p.s. the "EU is off-topic" was as much a warning to me as to anyone else ;-) 
I'm prone to "going off on one" when the green party or the EU is mentioned!