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 | Posted by: gunne on Thursday, December 30, 2004 - 00:10
Submitted by gunne |
| | | | The decision about software patents within EU have been put on hold again, on the 21 of December.
This happened because of a request from Poland.
Some part and the council wanted first to decide on the basis of a majority that existed on May 18th.
You can read more about this here at: www.nosoftwarepatents.com
Also German Minister of Justice reacts favorably to the Polish move; Read here
The mayor of Munich, Christian Ude, has spoken out again and welcomes the decision by the EU Council to take more time for its decision on software patents. The Linux migration by the Munich city administration is one of the most observed IT projects in the world. Since the groundbreaking decision to embark on that project, Mr. Ude is relatively well-known in IT circles worldwide (if not by his name, then at least for the migration project).
Further announcements and news regarding this from nosoftwarepatent.com is to find here
Software Patents news from kwiki.ffii.org
"Brussels (21 December 2004). In a totally unexpected turn of events, the EU Council took its proposal for a software patent directive off its agenda during today's meeting. Actually the item had been slated for debateless approval as a so-called "A" item. Polish undersecretary Wlodzimierz Marcinski asked for additional time in order to be able to write up a "constructive declaration". The meeting chairman accomodated the request since no country raised objections. The EU Commission expressed its regrets but also accepted this decision.
"In a previous statement on www.NoSoftwarePatents.com, Linus Torvalds and other European software developers had already denounced the Council's current proposal as "deceptive, dangerous, and democratically illegitimate".
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