[SC.LUG] EU Software Patent Plans Shelved Amid Massive Protests

[Richard Smedley]

On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 21:01, Ian Molton wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 19:51:54 +0100
> David Holden <dh@iucr.org> wrote:
> 
> > http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/demo0827/index.en.html
> 
> w00t!

This is v good news, but before we get too 
carried away with celebrations remember that
the EU parliament doesn't vote ``no'' to
anything - this will go back to committee to
re-emerge in a less controversial form.

There's a lot of work needed to ensure that
the proposals that come out next month do
not include (indeed, specifically exempt)
software and business methods.

 - Richard

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