On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:12:31 +0100 Kaj Haulrich disseminated the following:
> Anyway, the EU doesn't have a head (=brain) Apparently some of them do: Quote: "The Commission regrets very much that the software patent will not be on the agenda. It has been removed," Commission spokesman Olivier Drewes told a news conference. Link: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050211133435297 'Course, the US of Microsoft wasn't all too happy about that: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050215071109231 It ain't all bad, a united Europe has more of a chance of standing up to this sort of corporate extortion, IMO. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:19:01 up 44 days, 8:00, 8 users, load average: 0.15, 0.08, 0.01 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power" -- Benito Mussolini
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