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Story: Software patents make a mockery of European ideals
Posted by: Anders (Monday 7 March 2005, 10:16 PM)
> Where do I register to vote for who sits on the Council of Ministers? Oh wait, that's right, I can't.
YES, you can - I believe the parliamentary election is in may, no? The counsil of ministers consists of NATIONAL ministers.
And if anyone has any sense Lord Sainsbury should not be represendting GB in the counsil of ministers any more - he is a software patent fanatic if there ever was one - and he is one of the people who have been pushing the EU to adopt this horrible directive...
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