Re: [Sheflug] Software patents

[Alec Melling <alec [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 06 July 2005 13:29, Neil McGovern wrote:
> Have been rejected :)
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06/eu_bins_swpat/
>
> EU Parliament bins software patent bill
> The European Parliament has voted by a massive majority to reject the
> software patents directive, formally known as the Directive on the
> Patentability of Computer Implemented Inventions. The vote to scrap the
> bill was passed by a margin of 648 votes to 14, with 18 abstentions.
>
> Neil

At times like this I like to think of a line written by Bertolt Brecht: "The 
beast is dead, but the bitch that bred him is on-heat again."

As I understand it the commission has now 'washed its hands' of the matter and 
is leaving it to the nation states to decide how to handle software patents. 
Given, that some nations in Europe already have in essence got them, perhaps 
the rest are open to being picked off. Much like the open skies situation.

Time for another quote, this time the military maxim - Divide and Conquer.
-- 
Alec Melling
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