EU Rapporteur Publishes Software Patent

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday April 20, 2005 @10:00PM from the listen-up dept.

Sanity writes "Michel Rocard, economist and former French prime minister, has just published a report on the European Software Patents Directive. He is the European Parliament's draftsperson or "rapporteur" on the directive, and so it is likely that his views will be taken very seriously. The anti-software patent lobby group FFII like the report, saying that it "contains all the necessary ingredients for a directive that achieves what most member state governments say they want to achieve: to exclude computer programs from patentability while allowing computer-controlled technical inventions to be patented." The Directive will have its second reading on July 6th."

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Re:A Google translation of Rocard document by Anonymous Coward · 2005-04-20 22:14 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Goddammn Karma Whore! Die mutthafuckah DIE!
Re:I say by QuantumG · 2005-04-20 22:41 · Score: -1, Flamebait

There's nothing irrational about being anti-French. The Americans just happen to have trouble putting into words why they hate the French, whereas everyone else on the planet is happy to shout it from the rooftops.

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