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Story: EC: We'd accept software patent defeat

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Posted by: Anonymous (Wednesday 16 March 2005, 5:37 PM)

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Creevy correctly recognises that the EP cannot be trusted to tinker with the proposed directive. The last time they did that, the EP produced an amended directive which was a real mess. That's why the Commission reasserted the proposal in its original form.

The EP ministers clearly do not understand the issues at stake, or they would have voted for the proposal a long time ago.

Creevy is, in effect saying "dont mess" with what you dont understand, and if you do mess with it, then we will kill the proposal in its entireity.

While this doesnt sond very democratic, the solution to this is to elect EP ministers who take time to properly consider the laws which they pass, NOT to rant about the Commission, who have merely put forward a reasonable proposal for maintaining the status quo in Europe regarding software patents.

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