On Wednesday 16 February 2005 01:27, JoeHill wrote: > On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:12:31 +0100 > > Kaj Haulrich disseminated the following: > > Anyway, the EU doesn't have a head (=brain) > > Apparently some of them do: > > Quote: > > "The Commission regrets very much that the software patent will > not be on the agenda. It has been removed," Commission spokesman > Olivier Drewes told a news conference. > > Link: > > http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050211133435297 > > 'Course, the US of Microsoft wasn't all too happy about that: > > http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050215071109231 > > It ain't all bad, a united Europe has more of a chance of > standing up to this sort of corporate extortion, IMO.
Well Joe, first and foremost : EUrabia will never be united. On the contrary, it is decaying rapidly. Exactly like its predecessor, the Soviet Union. Secondly, when the present EU with its Central Committee - eh - Commission and Politburo -eh - Council has vanished into the scrapyard of history maybe democracy get another chance in some parts of Europe. Thirdly, the present Patent issue is just "delayed", not removed. No matter what the various parliaments (including the EU Parliament) decides, the Politburo doesn't care one bit. Microsoft, Siemens, Nokia etc.. still "owns" the Commissars, the Eurocrats and politicians. Read on : http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=351 Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8*
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