Dutch Parliament Considers Revoking Support for Patent Directive (OSnews) [LWN.net]

OSnews is carrying a lengthy article describing the process that has led the Dutch government to reconsider its position on software patents in Europe. "The Dutch parliament will make a final decision about the position the Minister will take in September. A debate about this issue will take place at Thursday, the 24th of June, 19:45-20:45 CET... They may also decide to require the European Presidency to open a new voting procedure, which would completely reopen the case for all member states." (Thanks to Daniel Mantione).

Dutch Parliament Considers Revoking Support for Patent Directive (OSnews)

Posted Jun 23, 2004 22:41 UTC (Wed) by stock (guest, #5849) [Link]

"Dutch Parliament Considers Revoking Support for Patent Directive"
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The Dutch Minister of Economic affairs mr. L.J. Brinkhorst has placed
misleading information inside a Letter to the European Council.

Inside that Letter he says that Dutch Parliament agrees fully with the
Council's proposal on software patents. A proposal in which the Irish
presidency reversed all complaints and arguments back to the original
filed proposal on which we all came up in arms in the first place. So
the Council actually was presented with false information just prior to a
new vote on software patents. Minister Brinkhorst says it all was a
Word processor typo, but in a less friendly environment this would have
costed him his position, and be accused of forgery.

Well now, the original Letter including typo seems to be missing
currently. Maybe there are some Council members who still have a copy
(with the presumed typo) in their possession ?

Robert