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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:Let me be the first to say... by Pantero+Blanco · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How's that "Flamebait"? He said...something involving beverages, then used hyberbole to point out a reason to avoid software patents. Namely, that software patents often end up being given for trivial or obvious ideas, and prevent anyone else from expanding from those ideas. There's nothing offensive at all in the post.

  2. Re:Time for a lobby by BananaPeel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Please note the email addresses need to be checked in this list as most of the emails i sent were bounced.