Large Multinationals welcome EU CIID decision

The Irish IT news website ElectricNews.net has run a piece that happily states:

Elsewhere, ICT Ireland, the association which represents the high tech and information and communications technology (ICT) sector in IBEC, welcomed Monday’s decision.

In case you didn’t know, ICT Ireland is apparently “the voice of the Information and Communications Technology sector in Ireland.”. I was genuinely surprised by this statement, I thought they would at least have expressed some concerns.

ITC Ireland’s Governing Body Membership Roll call has impressive representation from just about every major hi-tech multinationals that happen to operate a facility in this country. It also turns out that a Michael Daly, Country General Manager of IBM Ireland is the Chairman of Governing Board of ICT Ireland

Mr Daly’s employer alone own more US patents than anyone other company. Perhaps the journalist should have reported this fact.

It also begs the question, is this really an “Irish” group? Maybe it’s “Oirish” but representing the indigenous software industry? Not really.

Tuesday, March 8th, 2005 patents

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