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Dutch Say No to Software Patent Directive

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the don't-forget-poland dept.

Rik writes "Thursday night the Dutch parliament has decided that the Dutch government should not vote for the EU Software Patent Directive at the European Council of Ministers next week. The decision of the Dutch parliament strengthens attempts of MEPs of the European Parliament to send the Software Directive back to the drawing board."

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  1. SLASHDOT IS BANKRUPT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hi there. Do you know why Slashdot is such a morally banktupt website?

    Read this: http://slashdot.org/~NRAdude/journal/98058

  2. Re:Would someone explain me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yes, the EU is infact the new USSR, but don't worry you're quite safe over in the land of the free and home of the brave as long as you keep your tinfoil hat on and carry an assault rifle at all times.

    God bless America and the Divine Leader George W. Bush!

  3. Would some editor please wake up? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This story is stale! I'm sitting at work, deadly bored and it's here for like, 4 hours! PLEASE post something new! May be a review of some hardware Michael received as a gift from a company. May even be another dupe of fans backing up Star Trek sequel! God, it may even be an article "how to record more than 700M on a CD"!

    This story is so old it's dead. It lies on the floor, begins to stink and some worms start peeking off its links.

    (and if we're at this, would somebody update the poll? Or are you running for "longest time without poll update" too? It's a week old!)

  4. Re:Can't we get rid of patents altogether by bbc · · Score: 0, Troll

    There is no such thing as intellectual property law. The things we are discussing here have nothing to do with property. So accusing somebody of lacking an understanding of your so-called "intellectual property law" is misleading and unfair.

    Copyrights do not protect expressions, and patents do not protect ideas. Instead, they protect the interests of publishers and large manufacturers respectively. I don't know how this went with patents/manufacturers, but in the case of copyrights, the basic idea has been from the start to protect the interests of the publishers. This is witnessed by the fact that a law that was initially designed to stem the immoral dealings of (some) publishers was more or less dictated by those same publishers.

    It's as if the Maffia helped draft the anti-racketeering laws.