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'Biggest threat ever'?'Biggest threat ever'?Posted Nov 17, 2004 23:48 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)Parent article: Poland opposes europatents
This is truly excellent news, of course; note that the voting weight changes recently agreed to helped this happen, as well :)
But I'd not agree with the statement that this was the 'biggest threat ever' to economic growth and freedom of communication. The nations now in the EU have seen many far worse threats off, mostly in the form of dictatorships and police states of various kinds, in the last century alone. Software patents are very bad law, impoverishing, unjust, and restrictive of freedom, but surely are not as bad as, say, state-sanctioned mass murder.
(Of course, this doesn't mean that we should ignore *this* threat!)
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'Biggest threat ever'? Posted Nov 18, 2004 0:21 UTC (Thu) by rknop (guest, #66) [Link] It may well be the biggest threat that the *EU* itself has faced, given that Europe hasn't really had any dictators within the EU since the EU was founded.
-Rob
'Biggest threat ever'? Posted Nov 18, 2004 0:22 UTC (Thu) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020) [Link] He wasn't referring to the "nations now in the EU", but to the EU itself. I don't think the EU has been threatened dictatorships/police states.
'Biggest threat ever'? Posted Nov 18, 2004 7:44 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] Ah, right; that makes sense.
(I'd start moaning about vague phrasing, except that I'm a typical Englishman in that I'm pathetic at every other human language. I couldn't express myself in Polish at *all*, so I can't really complain about vague phrasing in this case.)
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