[Linux-bruxelles] 17/09 BXL Conference SOFTWARE PATENTS : THE CHOICE IS YOURS

[Laurence Vandewalle]

Press Conference SOFTWARE PATENTS : THE CHOICE IS YOURS
Wednesday 17 September 16.00 -18.30
European Parliament Brussels Room PHS 5B001

15.00	Press conference in briefing room

16:00	Introduction by Daniel Cohn-Bendit MEP Chair of the Green/Efa
Group in EP

16:10	Presentation of the petition of the scientists : Dr. Paul Klint
President of the European Association of Programming Languages and Systems (EAPLS)
(http://www.math.chalmers.se/~bengt/petition.pdf)

16:30 	Presentation of the letter of the economists: Dr. Luc Soete,
Founder of Merit (Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation
and Technology
(http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/technologie/0,39020809,39116150,00.htm)
	Europe leads the world in Free/Open Source Software - without patents"
	Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, programme leader FLOSS and FLOSSPOLS, MERIT

16:45	European consumer's point of view: Jim Murray, Director of the BEUC

17:00 	n.n. (videoconference)*

17:30	Administration that switched to open source software (Germany)
Jens Mulhaus Member City Council city of Munich

17:45	Roland Dyroff, Suse : concrete impacts on SMEs 

18:00	Debate

18:30	Conclusion

http://www.greens-efa.org

*Translation is available in all official EU languages

Participation is free however it is necessary to register by Monday
15.09.03 by email with your name, address and birthdate to lvandewalle at europarl.eu.int in order to get an
access badge to EP