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EU Software Patent Directive Adopted

Posted by Hemos on from the big-bad-news dept.

sebFlyte writes "FTA: "An EU Council spokeswoman said on Monday morning that the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive had been adopted." Apparently it's due to 'institutional reasons' that they're ignoring the outcry from developers and several nation states ..."

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  1. Re:Extremely high suckiness coefficient by t_allardyce · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is the crappiest thing I've heard in a long while! What's next, stopping citizens from seeing official documents because it creates unnecessary expenses and only whiners ask to see them anyway? Or removing the right to vote for all citizens of the EU, because recurring elections could hamper the ability of EU politicians to make long-term plans?

    I can just see some EU and US politicians reading this and thinking "huh? is this parody, i don't get the joke"

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  2. Land shark! by rs79 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dude, that's the Jaws theme.

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    1. Re:Land shark! by RenatoRam · · Score: 3, Funny

      nah, that would be

      duun-dun (pause) duuun-dun (pause) duuun-dun (pause)

      dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun- du n-dun-dun(ad-libitum , crescendo)

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  3. stupid people... by compro01 · · Score: 2, Funny
    Apparrently it's due to 'institutional reasons' that they're ignoring the outcry from developers and several nation states..."br>


    yeah... "institutional reasons". these people belong in an institution...

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  4. Re:ugh by Soruk · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe it's just as well I'm already learning to speak Chinese...

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