Software patents sent back to the commision

The software patents directive has been sent back to the commision after repeated blocks from Poland. Thank you Poland for getting rid of this stupid directive that would have crippled the EU software industry with the kind of stupid preditory patents now found in the USA. Shame that the EU Parliment couldn't have done this earlier when it amended the directive, only to have all it's amendments removed, but I forgot that would have been the democratic way of doing things and have taken far less time.

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a blog entry an the concept of software patents