[sdpd] Software Patents directive rejected by EU Parliament

[Favre-Nicolin Vincent <vincefn...@users.sourceforge.net>]

	Dear all,

  Today the software patent directive has been rejected by the EU Parliament, 
with a large majority. You can read more information about this on: 
http://www.ffii.org/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/technology/4655955.stm
...

   The last few days have seen a very strange evolution in the EU Parliament. 
A lot of momentum gathered behind the cross-partisan "Buzek-Rocard-Duff" 
amendments, which would exclude "pure software" and algorithms. This was 
probably not enough to pass these amendments, but close enough to frighten 
the pro-software patents.
   In the end, most MEPs voted against the directive, either because they were 
against it, or because they were afraid of restrictive amendments from the 
parliament...

   This is not the end of the struglle though. It is unlikely that a new 
directive will proposed soon, but pro-software patent will probably try to 
make changes directly at the national level in all member countries...

	Cheers,
		Vincent
-- 
Vincent Favre-Nicolin
Université Joseph Fourier
http://v.favrenicolin.free.fr
ObjCryst & Fox : http://objcryst.sourceforge.net


 
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