On Mar 8, 2005, at 9:28 AM, Jo Lahaye|MMBase Foundation wrote:
Hello all,
1. Monday March 7 was not a beautiful day for those who like software to be
free of patents. The European Commission accepted the directive unchanged,
acting against the will of parliament and many regulations. European
Parliament will have a second chance to alter the directive and it probably
will, but the brute force used to accept the directive in the meeting of the
council yesterday, means there are no easy wins.
http://wiki.ffii.org/Cons050307En.
Just a small update, Even if only a few media places are reporting it (webwereld.nl for example)
slowly there is a new angle in the fight. More and more internal european organisations are seeing
this as more than just a case about patents. By slimply shedding light on things and recasting voices/statements
from local countries back to others involved i guess opensource at work public sessions just became more public.
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If you think computer patent law is boring, think again. Over the past year, factions for and against the patenting of programs have fought a battle for the soul of European software, and the ramifications of a recent EU decision on the subject are likely to be huge - and not just for anoraks......................................
................................ .....But this time, things may be different. The European Commission has gone out of its way to thwart the European parliament, disregarding the wishes of various elected bodies by its insistence that bureaucracy trumps democracy, and that fiats beat votes. A time was bound to come when there would be a power struggle over who really runs Europe: the commission or parliament.
Maybe an apparently obscure battle over software patents will not only go down in computing history, but also be counted as a decisive moment in shaping the 21st century's political landscape, too.
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The Guardian - UK
The demand now more and more seems to have a fair fight something thats alot easer to explain to more MEP members...
Daniel.
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