Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-03-08-Speech-2-215"
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"Mr President, I am happy to say that I agree with what the previous speaker had to say about the services directive, but, Commissioner, when it comes to the software patent directive, everything becomes incomprehensible. How can you defend it as you have just done at a time when the Lisbon Strategy is again being lifted high? Do you not see how, by taking this course of action on software patents, you are in fact hamstringing the European project in defence of which you have just spoken? How do you propose, by means of these patents, to protect the small and medium-sized businesses, whom you have described as being gravely concerned? They cannot afford lawyers. What is going on here is a stitch-up.
For years, thousands of people with innovative minds and smart intellects, people who could help move Europe forward, have been protesting against this software patent directive, and that with good reason. Meanwhile, you act as if the thing were even in their interests, whilst avoiding mentioning those who really did guide you in drafting it, namely big businesses, in an attempt to deny small businesses the freedom that sets us apart from the American market and to prepare the way for a flattened field in which enormous profits will be achieved only by the very few. That is not the Europe for us!"@en1
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