Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-23-Speech-2-055"
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"Mr President, this is one of those areas where those of us who are neither legally nor technically expert address debates of this kind with our fingers crossed behind our backs, hoping that we are getting it right. I say that particularly in relation to this debate because so many hundreds of thousands of livelihoods depend on this Parliament and the Commission getting this issue right.
There are very few absolutes in this debate. Perhaps the Commission is right to some extent, and perhaps Parliament is also right to some extent. What is absolutely certain is that doing nothing is not an option; we cannot allow the current situation to continue as it is.
Therefore, I hope that the Commissioner can find a way to accept many of the excellent amendments that Mrs McCarthy has brought forward. The rapporteur has done tremendous work in teasing out the issues and presenting, certainly within my group, a very clear position. She has made every effort to find a consensus position.
It is important that we ensure that the open-source area is encouraged and that the whole IT industry is maintained in a vibrant and innovative way. However, it is not right that we should allow the current legal uncertainty to continue."@en1
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