Poland Blocks European Software Patent Vote, For Now

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 22, 2004 @03:20AM 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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And while you're waiting for that to happen by wiredog · 2004-12-22 03:42 · Score: 0, Offtopic

don't give up sex or breathing.

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Re:I almost feel bad. by stupidfoo · 2004-12-22 03:45 · Score: 0, Offtopic

The screen door one is true!