[Discussioni] [Fwd: Microsoft, a sponsor for the presidency of the EU?]

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Patent Office


WORD-PROCESSING DOCUMENT STORED IN A SINGLE XML FILE THAT MAY BE MANIPULATED BY APPLICATIONS THAT UNDERSTAND XML

Patent number: CA2427122
Publication date: 2003-12-28
Inventor: KRUEGER ANTHONY D (US); JONES BRIAN M (US); BISHOP ANDREW K (US); LITTLE ROBERT A (US); SAWICKI MARCIN (US); SNYDER DANIEL R (US)
Applicant: MICROSOFT CORP (US)
Classification:
- international: G06F17/28
- european:
Application number: CA20032427122 20030430
Priority number(s): US20020187060 2002062


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 On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 06:08:37PM +0200, Simo Sorce wrote:
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 > Subject: Microsoft, a sponsor for the presidency of the EU?
 > Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 17:03:55 +0200
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 >             Microsoft, a sponsor for the presidency of the EU?
 > 
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 > 
 > Brussels, 14th May.
 > For immediate release.
 > 
 > At the initiative of Olga Zrihen, Member of the European Parliament from the
 > Belgian PS, of the internet section of the French socialist party "TemPS
 > réels" and of the VOV, Virtueller Ortsverein, the German virtual section SPD,
 > a protest action will take place in front of  the  permanent representation of
 > Ireland to the European Union this Monday, 17 May 2004 at 1300 (Rue Froissart
 > 89, 1040 Bruxelles), during which CD-ROM containing free software will be
 > distributed, notably to the Irish diplomats, as a signal of the existence of a
 > free european alternative to the monopoly of the American company, Microsoft.
 > 
 > The European draft legislation on software patents, crucial for the future of
 > the European information industry, after the first lecture of the European
 > Parliament, that substantially amended the initial proposition of commissioner
 > Bolkestein, is on the agenda of the "competitiveness" council of ministers of
 > the 17 of May. This proposal for a directive directly puts in confrontation
 > the material interests of the SMEs that comprise the bulk of the European
 > software industry to that of the big multinationals, such as the American
 > Microsoft.
 > 
 > Now we note that, Microsoft officially sponsors the Irish presidency of the
 > European Union .  According to Olga Zrihen, member of the European parliament
 > Belgian socialist party, "We have the right to question this situation: the
 > presidency of the EU, which is a central element of the European legislative
 > process, and is supposed to obey the democratic principles, accepts to be
 > sponsored by a private company whose economic interests are directly put into
 > cause by a legislative proposition on the agenda of the Council!
 > Furthermore, knowing that the "compromise" proposal emanating from the Irish
 > presidency rejects all of the European parliament's first lecture amendments,
 > which corresponds to the demands of Microsoft, there is a feeling of great
 > worry."
 > 
 > A press conference is to be held later at 1500 at the European parliament.  A
 > contribution of European socialists for the democratic control of the
 > information technologies will be presented by Olga Zrihen, member of the
 > European parliament in collaboration with Maurice Ronai, a national
 > delegate to information society's issues for the French socialist party,
 > Theirry Noisette, the secretary of the internet section of the French social
 > party " TemPS réels" and Anne Brand, a spokeswoman of VOV (Virtueller
 > Ortsverein, the virtual section of the German SPD).
 > 
 > Contact person: Antonio Gambini, parliamentary assistant of Olga Zrihen
 > MEP: (+32) (0)479.48.28.78
 > 
 > Olga ZRIHEN, Députée Européenne
 > Assistant Parlementaire: Antonio GAMBINI
 > Parlement Européen
 > Rue Wiertz
 > ASP12G108
 > Tel: 00 322 284 60 94
 > Fax: 00 322 284 94 51
 > B-1047 Bruxelles
 > 
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