Les brevets sur les logiciels et leur danger pour le shareware

Polish Parliament, Kolumnowa Hall, May 10, 11-16
Software patents in Europe. Need we them?

Two parts divided by press conference or lunch

Session I (Chair: Laurence Vanderwalle, Łukasz Jachowicz)
11.00-11.10 Opening by Senator Marek Balicki
11.10-11.20 Why we are active in software patents issue? (Łukasz 
Jachowicz or Hartmut Pilch)
11.20-11.40 Can and should knowledge and information be a property?
Must Europe imitate the USA? (Reineir Bakels)
11.40-12.40 Influence of patents on software development (Richard 
Stallman)
12.40-13.00 Position of Polish government in the UE Council. Is it 
conforming with national strategy of free software development?


Session II (chair: Edwin Bendyk, Szymon Błaszczyk)
14.00-14.40 Economic rationality. Opinions of entrepreneurs
(A.Odyniec-Makrosoft, P.Biernacki-MGX, A.Dawidziuk-7bulls, 
S.Perchaud-SharewareEurope, Kowalski-Novell-PL, Rey-SAP-PL)
14.40-14.50 Further steps in European co-decision process, the second 
reading (Laurence Vanderwalle)
14.50-15.30 Opinions of political parties, election committees to the 
European Parliament
15.30-16.00 What next to do? - Opinions of civil society, professional 
associations (ISOC-RWO, PRO, PTI, PIIT, FFII)

 

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