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Germany to Vote Against Software Patents in the EU
YKW writes "According to Ars Technica, Germany has decided to vote against all changes to current European patent laws. In a statement given to demonstrators in Germany, Federal Department of Justice Minsterial Director Elmar Hucko read the riot act to the EC: 'Under no circumstances do we want American procedures in Europe, Hucko vowed with regard to the US patent process. A patent must be "a fair reward for a bona fide invention and not abused as a strategy to bludgeon competitors.' With the largest EU member against software patents and French IT leaders lobbying their goverment to vote against them too, Europe might be saved from software patents. At least for a while. An older Slashdot article about software patents in Europe is here."
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*insert witty, but completely unrelated offtopic statement here*
"Gosh" knows?!?! Do us all a favor and make sure you don't reproduce yourself. It's fucking GOD, not fucking gosh! Sheesh!
should be: sehr gut gemacht!
"machen" is the infinitive form, perfect tense is "gemacht". hth.
Itself. You c4n't OR CHAIR, RETURN this po9st up.
Well, if you're going to be like that, I guess we'll have our statue back.
/not French, not american; Australian.
It's not funny, it's a troll, and should be modded as such.
Actually yes my grandfather did. Would you like his email address so you can thank him for putting his life on the line to save your asses in a war that America tried to stay out of for as long as possible. Before we went around saving Europe twice, we pretty much stayed out of your affairs, you got us involved so deal with it. Many Americans alive today were in the world wars, and many more died to save you. Stop dissing America, when ever we are needed we are there despite the critics, and we will be there again in the future if need be. As far as the slave comments go, slaves haven't been around for quite a while, and half of America never wanted them in the first place, thus the civil war. I'm from the North and I know my ancestors fought and died to free the slaves. Right now America's government has made a few relativly bad decisions (if you consider saving a nation that was to ignorant to know it needed to be saved to be bad), but mainly because the rest of the world doesn't have the balls to do what needed to be done. Give America another 4 years (should be enough time to get a new president and set things right) and things will be good again. America has an amazing ability to rebound, thats why we in the position that we are. Also keep in mind that America is the nation of nations meaning that we are all immigrants in one form or another, and even now there are far more immigrants in America then there are people that descend directly from the original americans(who were immigrants anyway).
Regards,
Steve
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"original americans"?
That would be native americans would it not? You know, the people who's land were stolen and killed by the millions.
It seems that the US is getting into a habit of being there even when they are not needed.
Oh, please. The U.S. Government put Saddam into power. And now you're claiming the moral high ground because you cleaned up (and even that is highly contentious) your own mess? Give me a fucking break.
It takes a comment like the grandfather-post to make your flamebait 'informative'. Amazing.
Hi Steve, I'm from Holland ... yes, the very nation that in 1777 fired the first official salute at an American frigate... thereby we OFFICIALLY were the FIRST country to recognize the independent state of America.
Let's see the libaration in 1945 as payback. Okay?
But let me tell you... you liberated us for the same reason as we helped Washington arm his people to kick the English out: we were unable to trade in English territory, so better help someone else in power...
That was what America was doing in Europe... both in WW1 as in WW2 (and Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Grenada, Panama, Honduras, and you name 'm....
No problem with that, but let's not make a glorious story about it. Okay?
Abolishing the European Union. (How Europeans can increase their social freedoms and strengthen their economies).
e ur opean_union.htm
http://www.guykind.com/politics/abolishing_the_
The U.S. is currently going downhill as a result of wanting to be more European (thanks Liberals and ignorant youths who think "free healthcare" and "Free education" works. TANSTAAFL!)
Speckpot?