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Poland Erases EU's Pro-Software Patent Majority
Algorithm wrangler writes "It looks like there is no longer a majority for software patents in the EU. Yay to our Polish friends - glad you made it in ... Now we can just hope for a bigger push in my own country too (the Danish minister got fried over this issue recently)."
They did well on the whole Engima thing, too.
Not likely. Poland is right now in a severe political turmoil, the government has recently fallen due to corruption allegations and there's another interim government with rather weak (if any) support in the parlament. There's no long-term planning of anything, the government will just manage things until the next election. Every day the press reveals another evidence of corruption. The sentence "Tinted windscreen, man, tinted windscreen.. it's better than... better than... better than... anything!", taken from transcript of secret service taping of conversations of one MP with a lobbyist corrupting him with a gift of a brand-new Mercedes Benz (with tinted windscreen) is now as popular in "watercooler" conversations as "You forgot about Poland". It turned out that in Polish government everyone took bribes from everyone, but they were too lazy/incompetent to do what they took bribes for. It's quite typical for Poland and that's why things have sometimes a happy ending here - when the politicians become too corupt and stupid, they sortof step back, enjoy their tinted windscreens and... let the wise men do their job. I guess that's what happened here.