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July 06, 2005
European Parliament rejects software patents
The European Parliament has thrown out the software patent directive by a huge majority. This is good. Inventions may be protected by patents but software, like literature and music, should be protected by copyright.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4655955.stm
www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,68099,00.html
petition.eurolinux.org/index_html?LANG=en
Posted by Simon Holledge at July 6, 2005 11:29 PM
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