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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."

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  1. The concept of voting ... by mmThe1 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    .. has been patented by the US Senate. EU Parliament can't do that this way...

  2. Re:What we need... by undetrerbrucke · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You make a serious point. Newsclips of late have portrayed European governments as highly sympathetic to the needs of their local economies. I doubt the EU can survive the damage to their credibility if they pass this and Munich et al. gives them the bird. Despite zealots, governments in Europe at every level have a huge interest in seeing that Linux thrives. It's a home grown OS for them and an enormous chunk of Europe (15%) depends on Linux. Europeans will get along only if the EU isn't pulling stupid stunts that hurt individual member states. Corporate influence is much weaker because of this dynamic. Laws are for people with no friends.