After the row of disastrously anti-demoractic practices committed by both the European Council of Ministers and the European Commission, it has become evident that the only way to fight back the tide is to use the methods that the big business is apparently also using: the good old democracy through a vote per euro scheme.

Therefore I have set up this European Anti-Software Patent Bribe Pledge Drive. I will not collect actual funds, but only pledges from people that are willing to send the pledged amount directly to the Luxembourg Council Presidency on the following conditions:

• The Presidency will withdraw the Directive Proposal as approved on 7 March 2005 (against the Council Rules, no less)
• The Presidency will submit as a new Proposal to the Second Reading the unmodified text of the European Parliament's Amended Proposal as was determined in the First Reading

Now, these requirements might sound like they're against the rules of the EU, as well as undemocratic, but let's face it, these subtle lackings have never been a problem in acting on this matter.

M. Rauhala L. Wirzenius