Convincing the governments requires political pressure from the programmers and users of Europe. Lobbyists working on this issue say that most legislators are unfamiliar with computers and do not understand how harmful interface copyright could be. Thus, what programmers need to do is to educate their legislators. Once the representative sees how much work is involved in learning to use a command language, explain that you have only taught one tenth of the subject. This should drive the point home.
Political effectiveness requires organization.
Leagues for Programming Freedom now exist in Finland, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Norway, and Switzerland. References Mock trial See the May 1990 issue of the Communications of the ACM , for the full results.