Dienstag, 13. April 2004
Software-Patente: Demo in Brüssel
Nicht nur die Entwicklung freier Software ist bedroht durch Logikpatente: auch
Hersteller proprietärer Software wehren sich gegen die Legalisierungsversuche,
die nun im EU-Ministerrat zur Entscheidung anstehen. Das Parlament hat im
September bereits ein deutliches Wort gesprochen. Unterstütze die morgige Demo in Brüssel!
Zitat FFII:
In February 2002, the European Commission proposed a directive that would
legalise software patents. However, the European Parliament decided in its
Plenary Vote of 24th September 2003 to fix all the loopholes in this proposal
and explicitly banned software patents.
Currently, the European Council of Ministers is discussing this directive.
Their internal working party proposes to simply discard all clarifying
amendments from the Parliament. They want to make everything patentable.
That is not an option Europe is willing to accept. We showed them this on 27
August 2003. We will show them again on 14 April 2004.
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