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EU Software Patent Law Moves Forward
Zygfryd writes "Just when we were all celebrating, the Polish Press Agency (PAP) reports that the Patent Directive is not likely to return to the first reading as the Commission may ignore the Parliament's vote on restarting the process. Revisions are said to be still possible, but under political pressure the Polish government stated they would no longer oppose the directive's adoption and support the former agreement made in May. Polish diplomats will, however, support any opposition initiated by other countries on the February 17 meeting." At the same time, drseuk writes "The Spanish Senate has just voted against Software Patents. This should hopefully require the Spanish EU representative to vote against any attempts by the Council of Ministers to ignore the will of the European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee."
another country will reist patents until it's the year 2030 and nobody will care and I will hopefully either died gloriously or have taken the right drug to remove my ability to care. and when there are no countries left to resist it will go back to Poland and Poland will CHANGE ITS MIND again and decide patents are wonderfull...
Democracy has met it's most important ennemy, and it is the bourgeois
Settle down... One step at a time: first, learn how to spell "its". This will help others take you more seriously. Changing the whole world order is a bit further down the track...
9:30 is a bit early for the average computer geek, isn't it?
Hmmm...
Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley
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Fuck revolution! Revolutions are just a big waste of energy, you unsettle more good things than fix bad ones. With revolution you put whole nations in frenzy, losing million's of peoples time and money. Why disturb everything good that we have built because of a handful of politicians bought by corporations?
What we need is a very well trained group of volunteer Ninja assassins to kill politicians. Now that's a revolution allright, but with the added benefit that our daily lives will go on as planned!
Democracy is a perfect concept, there are no flaws. However, most installments of democracy forget this essential component, which are the Ninja assassins that kill politicians, sometimes at random, just to make sure the "new blood in the politics" stays new and flowing.
What? does this sound violent and irrational? But don't we drive both innocent people and soldiers to die every day to ultimately fix holes in the system, a "necessary evil"? Exterminating politicians once in a while is good for the system too, and much more efficient than war.
Think about it: if you would take your butt of your chain and murder a pro-software-patents EU politician today, then they would either a) replace it with a politician that is against sw patents that cannot be bought or b) replace it with another son of a bitch, which would now think twice before sucking up to microsoft.
And, rest assured, most people would not cry for them (people usually don't remember who they voted for in the last election)
i was going to refer to a previous commment i made on a previous thread on this subject, but since it's scrolled off the list of previous comments on my user info page, and slashdot's search engine is broken (searching for user names in comments does not work), i guess i won't. suffice it to say: the corps will eventually win and software patents will be enacted. money talks.