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."

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Democratic?

[sepluv]

Yes, I am seeing a strange pattern here (which suggests that passing this directive may be less than democratic). Let's see what the current position of everyone on this directive is: elected European Parliament: 100% AGAINST (this version of directive) European Council of Ministers: majority AGAINST (with new countries joining the against all the time) European citizens/software users (who know about it): all AGAINST AFAICC (except some professional astroturfer called ) European software-industry alliances/coalitions: all AGAINST European software companies: nearly all AGAINST European programmers: (probably) all AGAINST €PO (i.e.: the guys who are breaking the current law because they receive so many brown envelopes to do so and as it brings them jobs, who want their current behaviour decriminalised): FOR €C (i.e.: unelected civil servants who are bribed by M$ and have strong connections with the €PO): FOR

Hmmm...

Democratic (adj.) Of, representing, or carried on by people at large