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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!

  3. 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...

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

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

  5. 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