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Software patent directive adopted
News The European Council adopted the software patent directive on Monday, despite requests from Denmark, Poland and Portugal to reject the directive. According to Florian Mueller, an anti-patent campaigner who watched the public part of the meeting, a...
[March 7, 2005, 9:45]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback I'm dismayed at the cretinous behaviour of the European commission and council in allowing the software patent directive to be adopted in it's current form. Where next for the opposition to the software patent directive?
[March 7, 2005, 23:21]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback He did not ask for a remowal of the software patent directive from the A-list. Therefore he now has to work the cancellation af the directive. I have just listend to the Danish "Økonomiminister" (minister of economy) Bendt Bendtsen statement.
[March 7, 2005, 23:28]
Software patent directive rejected
Talkback That said, I would still like to know who the 81 MEPs are that didn't vote against the software patent directive and why. How to make (and keep on ensuring that) the booting out of software patents works out well for the EU economy and not so well...
[July 6, 2005, 22:50]
High noon for software patent directive
News Campaigners from both sides of the software patent debate have stepped up their efforts before the European Parliament votes on the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive on Wednesday. A statement on the CEA-PME Web site says: "The proposal of...
[July 5, 2005, 17:50]
Row erupts over software patent directive
News The Patent Office spokesman maintained that the message from a consultative exercise carried out in preparation for the draft directive was "to maintain the status quo. The European Commission's directive on software patents has come under severe...
[February 21, 2002, 16:50]
EU vote 'widens loopholes' in software patent directive
News A key vote on the directive on the software patent directive has not only left loopholes in the legislation intact but may have even widened them, say campaigners They said the current form of the directive will "give big business the opportunity...
[June 21, 2005, 13:25]
Patent Office wants debate on software directive
Talkback All that is standing between European SMEs, inhouse software developers, webshop owners, scientists, musician/programmers etc.etc.and the predatory attentions of the likes of Acacia Research or the greed of de facto monopolists is the uncertainty...
[February 4, 2005, 14:31]
Software patent directive rejected
Talkback In Japan, software patent scheme has been working for some years, but now the authority is planning to place some ristictions on it. Good news. It's too dangerous to be left free.
[July 6, 2005, 21:28]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback Watch yourself Microsoft! You have just unleashed the full fury of the open source community now. You are now living on borrowed time. Nothing will stop what you have now begun. We will win through what we know best, sharing all our knowledge...
[March 7, 2005, 10:28]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback What patents allow though, is that if someone has an idea, he can patent it eventhough he may be unable to develop it. I really, really wonder how can someone be so ignorant as to say that patents aim at helping innovation.
[March 7, 2005, 22:12]
Software patent directive rejected
Talkback Will Berlusconi and co.really accept defeat and abide by the European Patent Convention from the 1970's or will they try yet again to snake it through in some other form, perhaps piggy backed to some lesser known bill.
[July 6, 2005, 16:02]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback If you can point to a single piece of open source software that infringes someone else's copyrights then by all means bring this to that project's attention *right now*. Mr Anonymous Programmer: "unabashed plagiarism" is already protected against...
[March 9, 2005, 12:05]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback I do hope this is an error, and wishful thinking from the EC. If it is true it is a very sad day for Europe and the World. The people responsible for this are criminals, the fact that it is white collar crime doesn't make it any better.
[March 7, 2005, 10:12]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback Any hope we might have had for tech innovation has now gone. It is a sad day.
[March 7, 2005, 10:27]
Software patent directive rejected
Talkback OHHH what a day its been, I didn't have to get up until 12pm, we have the G8, we've got the EU presidency, we won the Olympics, I've got pork for dinner and now this.much more than the stupid patent directive being defeated, my faith is now...
[July 6, 2005, 20:31]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback It makes me feel ill to think that the vested interests of a handful of obscenely wealthy businessmen have so easily been allowed to effectively wipe out the European software industry. Now that the US and Europe are in the pockets of Bill Gates...
[March 7, 2005, 22:33]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback English? Then write to your MEP(s) at writetothem.com; see if you can drum up some political support - I know it seems like a lost cause but everything's worth a fight.
[March 7, 2005, 22:52]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback Waive with your enormously expensive software patent (that somehow can't be dragged through court for years by laywers that try to dispute it) of your own? But because I'm not the worse guy around I'll allow music as long as you honor my patent by...
[March 7, 2005, 23:37]
