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EU Parliament Approves Software Patents

Posted by timothy on from the typical-statists dept.

AnteTempore writes "The voting has just ended. Few good and several bad amendments were accepted. The directive proposal was accepted: 361 for, 135 against, 28 abstentions. The precise numbers and results for each amendment will be available on europarl.eu.int tomorrow." Reader swentel submits this report on the vote (French) with slightly different numbers (364 voting yes, 153 No, 33 abstaining) but just as bad. Watch this story for updates. Update: 09/24 15:44 GMT by T : Dr.Seltsam writes to say that the early reports are "not quite correct. The German publisher Heise states in this article, that the vote concerned strong changes on the directive." In particular, "pure software patents will not be allowed." Google's translation engine does a decent job with the German.

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  1. Im sorry... by Epignosis · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...but I've patented voting, I believe you owe me some money...

    My name's Darl McBride and I'm a CEO

  2. Zut Alors! by gilmour14 · · Score: 5, Funny

    J'ai oubliez tout mon francais!

    1. Re:Zut Alors! by FuzzyDaddy · · Score: 2, Funny

      Or as my high school french teacher used to say, "If that thing over the o is a hat, what's the thing hanging down from the c?"

      --
      It's not wasting time, I'm educating myself.
  3. Re:Well Well... by Jerry · · Score: 2, Funny

    but probably not as well paid^^^^ campaign funded.

    --

    Running with Linux for over 20 years!

  4. Re:Screw this! by Micro$will · · Score: 0, Funny

    I'll bring the beer, you built the rocket. Done yet?

  5. I think I speak for all Europeans when I say by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shit, merde, pichka, schijt, geci, cach, fan, chuj, puta, rov, vittu, scheisse and a big "vai se foder" to our representatives in Brussels...

  6. Looking for another vocation by RenHoek · · Score: 2, Funny

    The IT business seems more and more hostile..
    I never wanted to do this job in the first place!
    I... I wanted to be... a chimney sweep!

    Leaping from smoke stack to smoke stack,
    as they belch out noxious yellow smoke.
    And all we'd do is.. sweep and sweep..

    On a totally unrelated note, Marry Poppins is hot and I wouldn't mind sweeping.. euhm....

  7. Re:Screw this! by MoonFog · · Score: 5, Funny

    The coolest thing is that you actually got modded informative ...

  8. Switch by damiena · · Score: 3, Funny

    I was, like, working on this lawsuit on my, like, computer. Then suddenly, it was like beep, beep, and all my evidence was gone. It was, like, a very good lawsuit

    My name's Darl McBride and I'm a CEO