[Fsf-friends] Europe loses the software patent battle
Chandrashekhar Mullaparthi
chandrashekhar.mullaparthi@t-mobile.co.uk
Tue Mar 8 10:23:57 IST 2005
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
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