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."

Comments

Re:Is there no one...

[mattyrobinson69]

there's me, so here's a quick summary:

People who would sell their souls to MS:
5999999998
People who wouldn't sell their souls to MS:
2

I could not stop myself...

[kompiluj]

www.fuckpoland.info (I know, it is a NXDOMAIN). But seriously, the problem is, that everybody thought that polish government was against patents. What they really wanted is to get some concessions in other fields, like more money for the farmers or something like this. I think that Mr Marcinski and his boss Mr Kleiber have just played a game, and we, silly, thought that they seriously oppose software patents. Or maybe this sudden change in presented position has something to do Bill G.? In Poland he has quite a lot of influence.