the deployment of open source software, which is incompatible with patents, is dramatically increasing in Europe by companies, governments, and organizations opening new possibilities for the European economy and the reduction of costs by governments;

I think we should use only much more fundamental arguments, and not such weak policy pointers, with not-so-broad support, based on the assumption that one loves open-source software. No matter how I love free-software, I think using such statements as above weakens the case against software-patents, which should not be granted because of one, very strong fundamental reason - they do not disclose any knowledge which the society would not have without awarding monopolies - so there is zero justification for granting them.