European software patents rejected (for now)
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This is hard to believe. I'm pleased with the outcome of the vote on software patents. With an absolute majority of 648 votes against, this is the first time a legislation proposal is rejected at second reading in the European Parliament.
This outcome does not finally resolve the issue of software patentability, nor does it prevent a similar piece of legislation from appearing in the European parliament after some time. Clearly, a solution must be found eventually, for the mutual benefit of inventors and the general public.
However, this vote has proven that people are indeed able to affect major political decisions (without resorting to violence or a revolution, of course!) even in a huge multi-national bureaucratic organism like the EU. It's a significant victory because the public has been educated and our representatives, hopefully, now understand that any future attempts to approach this issue must be very carefully considered and discussed.
For a brief news report, you may visit EUobserver.
PKT
P.S. I'm curious to see the reaction of R.M Stallman. Here is some more information from the Free Software Foundation (Europe).
Politics
This is hard to believe. I'm pleased with the outcome of the vote on software patents. With an absolute majority of 648 votes against, this is the first time a legislation proposal is rejected at second reading in the European Parliament.
This outcome does not finally resolve the issue of software patentability, nor does it prevent a similar piece of legislation from appearing in the European parliament after some time. Clearly, a solution must be found eventually, for the mutual benefit of inventors and the general public.
However, this vote has proven that people are indeed able to affect major political decisions (without resorting to violence or a revolution, of course!) even in a huge multi-national bureaucratic organism like the EU. It's a significant victory because the public has been educated and our representatives, hopefully, now understand that any future attempts to approach this issue must be very carefully considered and discussed.
For a brief news report, you may visit EUobserver.
PKT
P.S. I'm curious to see the reaction of R.M Stallman. Here is some more information from the Free Software Foundation (Europe).
posted by PKT at 1:20 μ.μ.
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