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On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 13:39 +0100, Ben Goodger wrote: > Recognising the need for > legislation on this issue, however, Labour MEPs now > want to see agreement within the Council of Ministers, > resulting in good legislation for the Parliament to > re-examine." > > Did he just say 'Lab want patents after all'? I don't think he did, although I don't garantee there is no wish for them... but at the moment software patents seem to be being granted. I favour something like the Groklaw proposal - that only things which make a tangible difference in teh real world can be patnetable, and other novel arrangements of information get copyrighted. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html