Comments on: Bruce Perens: Don’t Trust Microsoft on ODF; Europe to Crack Down on Microsoft Lobbying http://techrights.org/2008/06/24/bruce-perens-eu-crackdown/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Thu, 05 Jan 2017 01:24:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2008/06/24/bruce-perens-eu-crackdown/comment-page-1/#comment-13473 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:07:42 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/06/24/bruce-perens-eu-crackdown/#comment-13473 I think there should be a Wiki-like mindmap depicting the players (read: corrupt people) involved in this mischievous push for software patents where they never belonged.

Also see:

…where those “opportunities” almost certainly amount to sneaking in software patents by the backdoor.

Be alert for more of this stuff: the price of freedom is eternal vigilance etc. etc. etc.

]]> By: Andre http://techrights.org/2008/06/24/bruce-perens-eu-crackdown/comment-page-1/#comment-13466 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:22:48 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/06/24/bruce-perens-eu-crackdown/#comment-13466 “A compulsory register would be better,” McGann said, although he stressed this is his own opinion and not the official position of EICTA. “You will never stop the more corrupt element in Brussels lobbying without a compulsory list,” he added.

Ha! A lobby register puts only the small and informal players at a competitive disadvantage, and an EICTA slave would make the work for Mark McGann. Large lobby associations have no problem to present their work and provide clean data.

The only information that matters is; who are your top three clients.

I don’t think a lobby register would have prevented McGann’s astroturfing in the software patent debate.

But, ehm, I mean the Stubb lobby report is out. So let’s say something nice. McGann may be against ruthless lobbying and may believe he should be fired and advocate for world peace.

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