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Story: EU votes through software patent changes

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Posted by: Anonymous (Wednesday 19 May 2004, 1:14 AM)

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It's really a sad day for software developpers (and users!) in Europe. All hope is not lost, we must inform ourcandidate MEPs on the subject to reclaim our protection *from* state-granted monopolies in the software market.
And convince them that anti-trust sanctions are worthless, same as Resonable (??) and Non discriminatory licenecs for interoperability.
What is reesonable for a big (US?) compagny is to kill all (non discriminatorily!) competitors !
Anything that requires a trial (ie. for judging if reasonable) is worthless for SMEs)

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