The European Union has shown that it is capable of listening to it’s members today when it shelved the current software patent directive after Poland and Denmark made clear their displeasure about it.
So now the directive will start from scratch, and this time it is unlikely they will be able to sneak it though without full discussion and disclosure. I’ll bet there are some big software companies that are not happy campers this morning. The story can be found at Groklaw.

This article was posted on Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005 at 10:11 pm