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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. how close to 1st post am i? by neonprimetime · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    just curious

    1. Re:how close to 1st post am i? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  3. Re:Great joke! by Epignosis · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  4. YFI by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  5. morons re-approve pateNTdead eyecon0meter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  6. Re:hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  7. Depressed. by s1m3n · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I need prozac.

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  9. Helvetin helvetti! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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