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Story: EU Parliament forgives Council for adopting patent directive

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Posted by: Leon Brooks (Friday 1 April 2005, 12:38 AM)

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It's increasingly obvious that the EU parliament wants no truck with democracy.

In order to compete directly in this space, FOSS needs some of its biggest supporters (like IBM) to wine, dine and dazzle the people in charge of railroading (or not) the Keep Megacorps Safely Profitable Act (2005) through the EU political process.

Or possibly a few key whistle-blowers.

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