Write To Them, They Write Back

I’ve plugged the ster­ling work done by mySo​ci​ety.org before, but after using their Write​ToThem.com ser­vice yes­ter­day, and receiv­ing a swift and reas­sur­ing response from one of my MEPs, I thought I’d give them another thumbs-​up.

Write​ToThem.com makes it easy for folk to get in touch with their var­i­ous rep­re­sen­ta­tives, from local coun­cil­lors to MEPs, via fax and email, so, if, like me, you find your­self in a tow­er­ing rage as the Today Pro­gramme feeds you dread­ful news each and every morn­ing, it only takes a couple of clicks to unleash your inner Angry of Tun­bridge Wells. I don’t use it nearly enough, to be honest, so this is in part a note to myself to harass my rep­re­sen­ta­tives more regularly.

In case anyone was won­der­ing, I was using Write​ToThem.com to pester my seven MEPs about EU soft­ware patent leg­is­la­tion - Lord, could I sound any sadder? - and David Martin MEP responded almost imme­di­ately with a clar­i­fi­ca­tion of his posi­tion on the issue, and useful infor­ma­tion on the pro­posed leg­is­la­tion. I’ll save wit­ter­ing about the crazy world of patent law for another post, as I’m wait­ing for per­mis­sion from Martin to quote from his email, but for now, have a look at No To Soft­ware Patents for a quick guide to why the Direc­tive on the Patent­ing of Com­puter Imple­mented Inven­tions must not be allowed into the statute books.

Posted at 6pm on 08/04/05 by Jack Mottram to the politics category.
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