On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 03:04:37PM +0100, Reinhard Mueller wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 08.01.2008, 14:12 +0100 schrieb franz schaefer: > > > The EC is the executive body of the European Union. They don't make the > > > rules, they just execute them. It's the basic concept of separation of > > > powers. > > > > unfortunatly this is not really true. only the EC has the power to > > draft new regulations. > > That is correct, the EC can propose directives for approval by the > Parliament and the Council. Thank you for clarifying this imprecision. > > What the EC can't do is to create new ad-hoc rules on demand. > > What the EC should do is propose a directive that disallows software > patents, which would really solve the software patent problem in Europe. > What the EC can't do is invalidate some specific patents by declaring > them invalid, what it can't do either is invalidate some specific > patents by simply ignoring them.
Yes it can, since they are not valid. Rui -- Fnord. Today is Pungenday, the 8th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3174 + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
