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Poland Blocks European Software Patent Vote, For Now

Posted by timothy on from the goalie's-end-run dept.

Anonymous Brave Guy writes "Thanks to the Polish Minister of Science and Information Technology, Wlodzimierz Marcinski, Europe has dropped the current proposal for software patents. He made a special journey to Brussels to withdraw the proposal, basically in protest at the way the patents were being pushed through by the back door. Since the European presidency is about to pass to Luxembourg, this has effectively killed the idea, at least for the immediate future." More at FFII (Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure). This means that the promised move to delay actually worked.

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  1. Well by Silvertre · · Score: 5, Funny

    at least slashdot didn't forget about poland. :)

  2. In Other News... by RAMMS+EIN · · Score: 5, Funny

    In other news, Canada reports many cancellations of immigration requests from EU citizens...

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    Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
  3. as a future patent attorney by hsmith · · Score: 4, Funny

    i say: damn it!

  4. SET OF EVERY ZIG, er, POLISH by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    GO POLAND, FOR GREAT JUSTICE!

  5. Sweet by Lord+Kano · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now Polish people get to tell EU jokes.

    LK

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    "Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
  6. What's happening? by lxs · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft loses it's appeal, software patents are blocked, and satan just called to ask if he could borrow my skates.

  7. Re:Go Poland by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    > That is twice now they hav saved Europe's ass.

    Nah this story's a dupe from yesterday ;-)

  8. Re:Go Poland by 16K+Ram+Pack · · Score: 5, Funny
    That is twice now they hav saved Europe's ass. Being the first to break the German's Enigma machine and now this.

    Double-check your Hollywood History of the World, dude. You'll find it was a bunch of Americans.

  9. Major Kong by laejoh · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can imagine Washington and Redmond right now:
    (From the script of Dr. Strangelove)

    Now look boys, I ain't much of a hand at makin' speeches. But I got a pretty fair idea that something doggoned important's going on back there. And I got a fair idea of the kind of personal emotions that some of you fella's may be thinking. Heck, I reckon you wouldn't even be human beings if you didn't have some pretty strong personal feelings about software Patents. But I want you to remember one thing, the folks back home is a countin' on ya, and by golly we ain't about to let 'em down. Tell you somethin' else. This thing turns out to be half as important is I figure it just might be, I'd say that you're all in line for some important promotions and personal citations when this thing's over with. That goes for every last one of you, regardless of your race, color, or your creed. Now, let's get this thing on the hump. We got some lobbying to do.