Or did we win after all?

Posted Sep 24, 2003 14:32 UTC (Wed) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
In reply to: Or did we win after all? by hingo
Parent article: European patents approved

According to that IT-viikko article, the directive will still go through a second session, which might result in more amendments. If so, the fight is not over yet!

I fear that if the Europarlament have now indeed adopted a version of the directive that puts limits on software patenting, intense lobbying from the pro-patent forces could still change things for the worse in the second session.

1-0 to the good guys

Posted Sep 24, 2003 14:48 UTC (Wed) by hingo (guest, #14792) [Link]

In fact, this commissioner Fritz guy has threatened to simply withdraw the
proposal if he doesn't like it (see FFII text below).

In that case everything would return to as it were. The EPO would continue
to grant software patents, which would continue to be illegal.

(That last sentence is close to poetry ;-)

henrik