Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-07-05-Speech-2-035"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-07-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Patentability of computer-implemented inventions2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050705.6.2-035"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-07-05-Speech-2-0362
lpv:speaker	lp:Kathy Sinnott2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, software programming is of enormous importance to my constituents in Ireland. So much so, I have received literally bags of correspondence asking me to vote one way or the other. Understanding the nuances and repercussions of our decision is certainly not an easy task. Today, what we are talking about, to put it simply, is the ownership of ideas. In software, the great ideas of yesterday are the building blocks of the great ideas of tomorrow. These ideas can be used by all to further the science and to drive progress. One of the beauties of the software industry is that a lone programmer can sit down and write an interesting program. He can give it to others in exchange for a fee or he can put it on the open source domain where everyone is free to use it and to add to it. By its nature what he has done is straightforward and millions of people do exactly what he has done. That is what has driven innovation to date and has propelled forward the information society and the state of the art. How much innovation do you think will occur if that lone programmer needs to contract a team of patent lawyers? If we here tomorrow decide to add patentability to software, programmers all over Europe might be breaking the law without even knowing they were doing so until it was too late. If we allow patents, how much of the creativity and freedom to think will be stifled by the fear of infringement of one of the hundreds of thousands of patents that will exist? Patents that are registered or bought will control the very tools the programmer must use to exist as a programmer. I urge Members to support every amendment that retains freedom from patentability. This will give us the strongest position when we negotiate with the Council."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; IND/DEM (2004-07-20--2008-05-08)3 member; Delegation for relations with the United States (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; ENVI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; EMPL (2004-09-16--2007-01-14)3 substitute; TRAN (2004-09-15--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Independent (2005-02-16--2009-07-13)3 substitute; AFCO (2004-07-21--2006-01-09)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Kathy Sinnott (IND/DEM )."1

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