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

#descr: 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.

#oth: Who voted how?

#hii: 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.

#lfo: Analysis of MEP voting

#rFs: Report for all MEPs from Belgium. If they completely followed the %(vl: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).

#tav: voting data csv file

#uor: raw input for all kinds of analyses and presentations, with some scripts by Tapani Tarvainen.

#hoW: Who voted how

#sro: Tabular listing based on %(mw:MSWord original from the Europarl website).

#lWd: detailed analysis of the amendments.

#hsn: get hold of missing voting lists

#leU: We still don't have those of Wuermeling, UEN and EDD.

#cot: produce HTML versions of the voting lists

#bWW: This can be done with OpenOffice on the basis of the MSWord versions.

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

#evh: Produce more databases and reports to visualise the behavior of the groups and MEPs

#tdl: In particular we need two tabular listings:

#mdn: amendment

#aga: language

#tex: text

#mdn2: amendment

#vot: vote

#rye: Prepare for next year's EP elections

#rae: We should bring the subject of IT infrastructure policy into the election campaign.

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