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Euro Patent Restart Demand Repeated by Parliament
sebFlyte writes "ZDNet UK is reporting that the European Parliament's Conference of Presidents has ratified and repeated the demands of the Parliament for the computer-implemented inventions directive to be sent back to the drawing board, even though the Commission has refused to re-start it after previous demands. From the article: "It is not certain that the Commission will comply with the request of the Parliament, nor that it will use the opportunity to draft a good text ... The new Commission is not obliged to follow the Parliament's request and they might still try to keep all options open and ask the Council to adopt the agreement of last May without a new vote, so as to gain even more options for themselves."
...for making people accept that a restart is required to apply patches.
could you please get your noses out of the air long enough to explain how such a goverment could have been designed in your socialist utopia?
At least we can vote our crappy politicians out of office to make them responsive
yes, I am trolling - but I still wanted to ask
If thou see a fair woman pay court to her, for thus thou wilt obtain love
Unelected Fascist Scum bowing to coporate pressure.
... The solution is patenting as much as we can. A future startup with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high. Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors."
If this goes through then I'm joining the UKIP.
How come Parliament has less power than this Kremlin of Corporate stooges.
If this goes through then I advocate a return to Monarchy.
A benevolant dicatorship would be better than this.
M$ just Ownz0red Europe
Might as well kiss Linux Goodbye
Heres that Bill Gates Quote again:
The text is from an internal memo written by Bill Gates to his staff. Part of has appeared in another Gates memos.
If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.
Remember most of the Euro Software Patents (pre law allocated) are American Megacorps.
from w1thin.