EU Software Patents Legislation May Be In Trouble
A number of online news sources including Reuters are reporting that the proposed European Software Patents legislation may be in trouble. This is good news for the anti-Software Patents lobby but the vote has to be taken on July 6th. The EuObserver also reports that the legislation may be in trouble.
Lobbying has been rife and the pro-patent lobby has been planting stories all over the Irish media. PR operations claiming to represent the Irish software industry have been trying to get MEPs to vote for software patents. The reality is that these people only represent their backers, typically large multinationals with armies of lawyers ready to corrupt the European patents system so that it becomes a mirror of the failed US patents system. The Irish software industry is very much against software patents.
Tags: Irishblogs - Software Patents - EU
Written by John McCormac on July 5th, 2005 with
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