Great News!!! European Law Software Patent Rejected

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, jdow wrote:

> What is even more astounding is the level of unanimity in the vote
> against it. BBC News reports it was defeated 648 to 14. Way to go
> over there!

Some analysis I've seen suggests that this isn't quite the victory we 
would have wanted.  The patent regulation proposal was rejected wholesale, 
but better would have been for the proposal to be adopted with specific 
provisions against software patents.  So the suggestion is that this will 
all be back soon, and in the meantine, countries are on their own.

Disclaimer: IANALNAE (I am neither a lawyer nor a European...)

Nevertheless, this is kind of OT for this list.

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> {^_^}
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andreas Wahlert" <andreas.wahlert at gmx.de>
>
>> Hip Hip Hurrrrraaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!
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>> Big thx to all the voters against this Fu**!!!!
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>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] Im Auftrag von Antonio Olivares
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>> Got the information from http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=02764#0
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>> These are great News!!!
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Antonio
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 		Matthew Saltzman

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