[pp.int.general] Bullshit EU consultation

[Richard Stallman]

http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/consultations/2012/intellectual-property-rights_en.htm
is a sleazy propaganda attack on patent law in the EU.

The central premise of this consultation is that copyright law and
patent law (and several other laws) should be treated alike (or at
least, more alike than now).  It establishes this premise by taking it
for granted in the act of llumping them together.  It rehearses people
in this misguided conceptual practice by having them answer dozens of
questions, each of which is based on lumping them together.

I think this needs to be denounced as brainwashing.  Is anyone
interested?

The questionnaire is aimed primarily at those enforcing copyrights,
patents, and various other unrelated privileges -- so there is no use
responding to it.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St
Boston MA 02110
USA
www.fsf.org  www.gnu.org
Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
  Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call