On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 14:38 +0000, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > 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.
The EC is not the court of Justice, please stop talking nonsense, you are on the edge of trolling. Simo. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
