Council Presidency Adopts Software Patent Agreement Against Council's Rules
7 March 2005 -- The Council Presidency today declared the software agreement of 18 May 2004 to have been adopted, in violation of the procedural rules and in spite of the evident lack of a qualified majority of member states and the requests of several states to reopen negotiations.
Full story at: http://wiki.ffii.org/Cons050307En
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 09:59:30 +0530, Raj Mathur raju@linux-delhi.org wrote:
Council Presidency Adopts Software Patent Agreement Against Council's Rules
7 March 2005 -- The Council Presidency today declared the software agreement of 18 May 2004 to have been adopted, in violation of the procedural rules and in spite of the evident lack of a qualified majority of member states and the requests of several states to reopen negotiations.
oh no! :( is that really true ! i hope it is not :(
On 8 Mar 2005, at 05:58, Ankit Malik wrote:
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 09:59:30 +0530, Raj Mathur raju@linux-delhi.org wrote:
Council Presidency Adopts Software Patent Agreement Against Council's Rules
7 March 2005 -- The Council Presidency today declared the software agreement of 18 May 2004 to have been adopted, in violation of the procedural rules and in spite of the evident lack of a qualified majority of member states and the requests of several states to reopen negotiations.
oh no! :( is that really true ! i hope it is not :(
Not quite. There is still a slight chance this will get rejected. See link below.
http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=439
<quote> The European Parliament will now have three months to reject or amend the proposal. For rejection or every single amendment, the EP needs a majority of the component members of parliaments, i.e. 367 votes irrespective of absences or abstentions. </quote>
cheers, Chandru
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 10:23:57 +0000, Chandrashekhar Mullaparthi
Council Presidency Adopts Software Patent Agreement Against Council's Rules
Atul Chitnis writes: I am half Indian and half European. Both my homelands have now adopted policies related to software patents that undermine my professional and personal interests, in order to curry favour with a few companies in the USA.
Is there any country I could consider migrating to that has more sense in its head? http://atulchitnis.net/diary/showentry/284
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