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EU software patent directive postponed

transmitter | 08.02.2005 15:35 | Technology

Following a lack of support from the Polish government, the EU software patent directive has now been postponed - the struggle for the right to develop free software continues...

Check out the details on  http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com.

This campaign describes how the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament decided to request a restart of the process on the controversial software patent directive:

 http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=327

It also gives an insight on why software patents are a bad thing:

 http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/intro/index.html

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  1. Patent consultation — rz
  2. you've never said quite how good your software is — webloggers against the war (I'm@fazzlane)