EU Patents Won't Stay Dead · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Zonk on Friday March 4, 2005 @06:07AM from the like-legislative-zombies dept.

sconeu writes "Apparently the EC is ignoring the restart directive, and has placed software patents as an A-Item on the Council of Minister's agenda with an aim for approval on Monday." From the article: "The directive is pitched as offering greater protection for software developers. Opponents, including many in the European parliament, fear it will simply provide big players, including America's powerful and litigious software giants, with a very large stick to batter upstart developers and the Open Source movement." Update: 03/04 22:04 GMT by Z : And just as quick as you please Denmark stops things in their tracks. Denmark's objection means that there will have to be further debate before the patents get the stamp.

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Oops, I miswrote one sentence.. by Alsee · 2005-03-05 14:27 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I wrote:
We need to PASS the council's version.

I meant to write:
We need to PASS the Parliment's version.

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