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EU Parliament to Vote on New Patent Rules

Posted by michael on from the patent-foolishness dept.

peter_sd writes "The Register has an article discussing the implications to the open source community and small software businesses of the new software patent law to be voted on tomorrow by the EU parliament. According to the article, it is very likely the new patent law will be accepted despite its grave consequences."

2 of 252 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Thank you... there's now a major problem by Ungrounded+Lightning · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My post occurred on Sunday June 29, @10:39PM. The copy occurred at 10:54.

    Not only that, but the one change made in the cut-and-paste was to incorporate your signline as part of the post.

    I'd say your countersuit wins on the evidence. B-)

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  2. Re:Oh, puleeeze by Sanity · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Free software has been around for over 20 years in this environment, and there's no reason to suspect it will die in europe under much more sensible patent laws that do allow software patents.
    For just one example of how patents have hurt free software in the US, just look at the evolution of gzip, they had to rewrite it several times as each time they discovered that some patent covered the algorithm they were using.