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FFII Protests European Software Patent Decision
posted by Mueller on Saturday September 25 2004, @11:13AM
Elisabeth writes
One year ago Friday, the European Parliament voted to make software unpatentable in Europe and to defend basic liberties of the information society, such as freedom of "computer-implemented" reasoning and calculating, freedom of publication, and freedom of interoperation. The Parliament's decision was backed by a large and well-informed consensus of programmers, entrepreneurs, economists and consultative organs of the EU. Many MEPs said that they had never before witnessed so intense participation of citizens in their decisionmaking.
But Commissioner Bolkestein and the Council of ministers moved swiftly to discard the Parliament's decision and on May 18th, 2004, reached a "political agreement" in favor of patent officials and patent lawyers of multinational corporations, which ensures unlimited patentability of "computer-implemented" algorithms and business methods in Europe. The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure is promoting Sept. 24 as EU Democracy Day to commemorate the original decision.
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