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On 7/6/05, Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The European Parliament has voted by a massive majority to reject the > software patents directive, formally known as the Directive on the > Patentability of Computer Implemented Inventions. The vote to scrap the > bill was passed by a margin of 648 votes to 14, with 18 abstentions. > Unfortunately this till leaves a lot for us to do. The UKPO is continuing to allow pure and trivial software patents and you would have to be very naive to think the forces of greed and corruption will let this drop. Unfortunately I expect things to get worse quickly as they attempt to establish case law, etc to acheive their goals without new legislation and this needs to be stopped in the bud before it turns nasty. Anybody familiar with what has been going on should contact their MP about the UKPO's dodgy lobbying and patenting of software. MPs should be holding the guilty parties to account and getting the UKPO to clean up the mess it has made. A. -- 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