Philip Hunt wrote: > On Wednesday 06 July 2005 11:46, James Heald wrote: > >>Parliament says No to Software Patents >> >>Strasbourg, 6 July 2005 -- The European Parliament today decided by >>a margin of 648 votes to 14, with 18 absentions, to _reject_ the >>directive "on the patentability of computer implemented inventions", >>also known as the software patent directive. > > > Such a big majority! >
As I pointed out on my blog[1], the size of the majority is probably more about the parliament sending a message to the council of ministers than anything patent-related. http://blog.educause.edu/stuartyeates/archive/2005/07/06/7446.aspx cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates [EMAIL PROTECTED] OSS Watch http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/ Oxford Text Archive http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/ _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
