Re: (Waaaay OT) Re: EU Software Patents directive rejected!

2005-07-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 10:07:44AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Nicos Gollan writes: > > Yes, but now the parliament has at least shown its ability to act which I > > hope will make the corrup^Wcommission a bit wary of just trying to > > override its decisions. > > IMHO this vote was more about pow

Re: (Waaaay OT) Re: EU Software Patents directive rejected!

2005-07-06 Thread John Hasler
Nicos Gollan writes: > Yes, but now the parliament has at least shown its ability to act which I > hope will make the corrup^Wcommission a bit wary of just trying to > override its decisions. IMHO this vote was more about power politics between the Commission and the Parliament than about software

Re: EU Software Patents directive rejected!

2005-07-06 Thread Dexter
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 14:18 +0200, Piero Piutti wrote: > This is a great day for democracy in Europe: the European Parliament > has rejected the Software Patents directive by 648/680 votes. We're > free, we're save, we're happy! > > ;-)) > > http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2

Re: EU Software Patents directive rejected!

2005-07-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dave Ewart wrote: On Wednesday, 06.07.2005 at 07:56 -0500, John Hasler wrote: Piero Piutti writes: We're free, we're save, we're happy! You aren't safe. The national governments are free to adopt their own software patent legislation, and the Commission is free to try again later. s/is

(Waaaay OT) Re: EU Software Patents directive rejected!

2005-07-06 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Wednesday July 6 2005 15:43, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Wednesday, 06.07.2005 at 07:56 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > You aren't safe. The national governments are free to adopt their own > > software patent legislation, and the Commission is free to try again > > later. > > s/is free to/will almost

Re: EU Software Patents directive rejected!

2005-07-06 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 06.07.2005 at 07:56 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Piero Piutti writes: > > We're free, we're save, we're happy! > > You aren't safe. The national governments are free to adopt their own > software patent legislation, and the Commission is free to try again > later. s/is free to/will

Re: EU Software Patents directive rejected!

2005-07-06 Thread John Hasler
Piero Piutti writes: > We're free, we're save, we're happy! You aren't safe. The national governments are free to adopt their own software patent legislation, and the Commission is free to try again later. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs