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EU Commission Declines Patent Debate Restart
maxkueng writes "I just recieved an email from NoSoftwarePatents.com. They say: 'The EU Commission, under the leadership of someone who previously failed as Portuguese prime minister and as per the suggestion of a Microsoft puppet, has decided to decline the European Parliament's request for restarting the process on the software patent directive.' More can be read on Florian Mueller's Forum post."
Once they're bought, they stay bought.
From TFA:
Florian Mueller, the manager of the pan-European NoSoftwarePatents.com campaign, condemned the Commission's decision in the strongest terms: "A wannabe Napoleon who heads the Commission and a Microsoft puppet that runs the DG (directorate general) in charge have decided to negate democracy. Now we call on the EU Council to demonstrate a more democratic attitude and to reopen negotiations of its Common Position at the forthcoming meeting of the Competitiveness Council on Monday (7 March)."
It would appear the European Commission has moderated him -1 Flamebait and will be ignoring him.
I'm a big tall mofo.
In the name of the Portuguese people: sorry.
But we had to get him out of here!
per the suggestion of a Microsoft puppet
You will never replace Jim Henson, Mr. Gates... do you hear me?!?!?!! WELL, DO YOU!!?!?
Man, first I quit taking methamphetamines, and now this... If it wasn't for my talking sofa and the giant fat men, I don't think I'd make it through some days...
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I have no idea what inspired this comment.
Yeah, well, you try it. It's not all hanging about on the Algarve and drinking 25 year old Port, you know?
John.
It's not worthless. It certainly looks like it'll generate some value for its buyers.
This guy left Algarve to go to Brussels??? What could drive someone to do such a thing?
>as per the suggestion of a M... ...uppet
Fozzie Bear is a Lobbyist!
Bork Bork Bork
You can't talk about Wikipedia's flaws on Wikipedia
The democratic parliament and peoples of Europe decline to respect the commissions decline to restart because otherwise we are discussing the decline of democracy.
Pfft politics!
MS denies Windows needs restart.
So Italy's not a part of Europe?
I'm American, and I'm hoping that the EU can keep itself free from the patent monopoly biz. Because that will keep another productive source of software for me to use (and not patent :), and because their increased efficiency will create competition, the only factor that has ever gotten American business to improve. We've been goading Europe further into freedom for centuries by providing competion. The whole idea was an *investment* in an unstoppable process. Now we've got to reap the returns, as America sinks into the fatuous complacency we've developed after years at the top. Or we can move to France :).
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make install -not war
"Can any informed Europeans tell us why the Comission can just ignore what they've been told to do?"
Follow the money.
"Can any informed Europeans tell us why ICANN is so bad"
Follow the money.
"Can any informed Europeans tell us why the US invaded Iraq"
Follow the money.
*this is a recording*
Need Mercedes parts ?
If every slashdotter killed just 10 lawyers...
Hmmmm...
Suggesting that anything to do with Microsoft has strings attached!
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
The EU position is only "ambiguous" because the EPO reinterpreted "as such" in "computer programs as such cannot be patented" to mean that it was okay to patent all instances of programs in the real world, because the program "as such" is an abstract construct.
Really, any sane reading of EU law would already prohibit software patents, it's just the EPO wanted to extend its empire. If you ask me, the Dutch should kick the anti-free-market fuckers out and so should all the other EU countries. Patents, by definition, are restraint of trade by government-granted monooply, exactly the sort of crap the EU was supposed to combat.
>The answer is simple: The unbridled hunger for the corrupting influence that is Brussels.
I would have said the belgian beer, but you could be right too.
Commission must this, the advice and to have parliament necessarily notable, to have done. They arrest to test, with the process without a voice, in the theory of the agreement of the advice and parliament agree (in the version of the advice). The some committees of parliament meantime have the total thing more, to start and commission neglected. Moreover the sustentation eats in the advice for the version, during parliaments national of the instructions to the representatives with its government, them does not emit to the sustentation.
To viriatopt: :P.
O pa, da proxima vez nao passes isso pelo babelfish - fica mal
To everyone else, just go to the wikipedia article for what he tried to say.
In Snivel Boy against Harsh Reality, the Supreme Court ruled that AC's who whine about Slashdot moderation should probably check to see if their milk has expired and clean the dirty condoms out of their mothers' sock drawers, and quit bitching.