No EU software patents for now

Tuesday, December 21st, 2004

GrokLaw announces, in this article the following:

“In a totally unexpected turn of events, the EU Council took its proposal for a software patent directive off its agenda during today’s meeting. […] Polish undersecretary Wlodzimierz Marcinski asked for additional time in order to be able to write up a “constructive declaration”. The meeting chairman accomodated the request since no country raised objections.”

Somewhat further down into the article:

“The Dutch parliament had passed a resolution on July 1st, asking its government to abstain, but the Dutch government decided to ignore the will of its parliament. The Polish government reiterated on November 16th that it “cannot support the current proposal” but was pressured by the Dutch EU presidency and other countries to support the decision. At times it looked like Poland would give in to that pressure.”

Hooray for Poland. Fuck the (worst ever) Dutch government!

Weg met de huidige Nederlandse regering. Honden zijn het.