[Fsf-friends] Europe loses the software patent battle

[Chandrashekhar Mullaparthi]

On 8 Mar 2005, at 05:58, Ankit Malik wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 09:59:30 +0530, Raj Mathur <raju@linux-delhi.org> 
> wrote:
>> Council Presidency Adopts Software Patent Agreement Against Council's
>> Rules
>>
>> 7 March 2005 -- The Council Presidency today declared the software
>> agreement of 18 May 2004 to have been adopted, in violation of the
>> procedural rules and in spite of the evident lack of a qualified
>> majority of member states and the requests of several states to reopen
>> negotiations.
>
> oh no! :( is that really true ! i hope it is not :(
>
Not quite. There is still a slight chance this will get rejected. See 
link below.

http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=439

<quote>
  The European Parliament will now have three months to reject or amend 
the proposal. For rejection or every single amendment, the EP needs a 
majority of the component members of parliaments, i.e. 367 votes 
irrespective of absences or abstentions.
</quote>

cheers,
Chandru