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Software patent directive REJECTED - Tobias Schlitt - Weblog

Time to celebrate people! Software Patents have been rejected in Europe.

The European Parliament today decided by a large majority of 648 votes to reject the directive “on the patentability of computer implemented inventions”, also known as the software patent directive. This rejection was the logical answer to the Commission’s refusal to restart the legislative process in February and the Council’s unwillingness to take the will of the European Parliament and national parliaments into account. The FFII congratulates the European Parliament on its clear “No” to bad legislative proposals and procedures.

Whether or not you are a programmer this is a very significant vote and we all owe the great people at the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure and all the people who campaigned against this a lot of thanks!

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