EU Parliament Demands Fresh Start for Patent Directive

ravenII writes "Members of the European Parliament from countries including Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden have asked for the software patent directive to be redone from scratch, according to a report on Monday."

Comments

Bush will be happy ...

[auburnate]

The article states:

Poland's last-minute intervention has made them popular with supporters of the anti-patent movement.

Bush has his famous "You forgot Poland" comment. Maybe he was on to something.

let's patent recipes too!!!

[xutopia]

Patenting software is like patenting recipes! I say if patents pass we should patent recipes as well!

Re:What US Should do

[ynohoo]

Or changed to include the responsibilities that go with that freedom. Since the behavior of most corporations is sociopathic at best, and frequently psychopathic, they should all be locked up in loony bins until they learn how to behave ;D