#title: ESC and Software Patents #descr: The Economic and Social Council of the European Community (ESC) is a consultative organ which unites experts and scientists from various fields and drafts working papers or opinions for the co-deciding organs of the European Union (CEC, CEU and Europarl) to consider. In Sep 2002/09 it produced a report that is very critical of the CEC software patentability directive and demands a rewrite which should take the interests of SMEs and free software into consideration and formulate proper policy goals. #miW: multilingual website # Local Variables: ; # coding: utf-8 ; # srcfile: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/phm/sys/mlht.el ; # mailto: mlhtimport@ffii.org ; # login: phm ; # passwd: YYYYY ; # feature: swpatdir ; # dok: swpatesc ; # txtlang: en ; # multlin: t ; # End: ;