On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Philip Hunt wrote: > > Strasbourg, 6 July 2005 -- The European Parliament today decided by > > a margin of 648 votes to 14, with 18 absentions, to _reject_ the > > directive "on the patentability of computer implemented inventions", > > also known as the software patent directive. > > Such a big majority!
Apparently the pro-patent lobby asked for a no vote as well - in their case because the amendments would have made patents unusable for them. The problem is not solved however as national patent offices may now push the pro-patent lobbies agenda locally. We might have been better with a directive that had been properly amended than to have no directive at all. Jason -- UKFSN.ORG Finance Free Software while you surf the 'net http://www.ukfsn.org/ 2Mb ADSL Broadband from just £14.98 / month _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
