In something of a win for the good guys, the European parliament has voted overwhelmingly against the proposed “Directive on the Patentability of Computer Implemented Inventions.” otherwise known as the software patents directive. It isn’t a huge win for those against software patents because the EU is already rife with them and it’s simply a matter of “business as usual” for the big software companies.
The news has been covered by dozens of IT sites already so I’ll not go into it further here except to give you some links to those sites.
theregister.co.uk
webpronews.com
news.bbc.co.uk
http://theinquirer.net
