[NetBehaviour] good news-european software patents bill was defeated

[Lewis LaCook]

this is WONDERFUL---means software will become a
helluva lot more interesting (and stable, and
better-built) in coming years...

bliss
l
 

--- Helen Varley Jamieson
<helen at creative-catalyst.com> wrote:

> yeah i heard this somewhere in amongst it all, & it
> is great!
> h : )
> 
> >the european software patents bill was defeated on
> Thursday in the 
> >european parliament....
> >this is a big deal- no?
> >must have got lost in all the bad news.
> >ruth
> >
> >EU assembly throws out bill to harmonize patents
> >
> >STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - The European
> Parliament threw out on 
> >Wednesday a controversial bill to harmonize patents
> on software 
> >which big technology companies had sought to
> protect themselves.
> >
> >The assembly voted 648 to 14 to reject the bill
> backed by companies 
> >such as Microsoft (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile,
> Research), Nokia 
> >(NOK1V.HE: Quote, Profile, Research) and Siemens
> (SIEGn.DE: Quote, 
> >Profile, Research) and by European Union
> governments, which saw it 
> >as a potential boost for technology investment.
> >
>
>http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2005-07-06T124416Z_01_N06196099_RTRIDST_0_TECH-TECH-EU-PATENTING-DC.XML
> >
> >
> >
> >
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