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December 24, 2004
Thank you, Poland!
Looks like extending the European Union to the East has already brought some return on investment. Polish deputy minister for science and information technology Marcinski showed the courage to intervene at last minute to stop software patents in Europe.
Such patents, said to stiffle innovation among open source developers and small to medium size enterprises, failed to get approval of the European Parliament earlier. However, Brussels buerocrats managed to somehow push the proposal through the system, leaving it up to the council of ministers of agriculture (!) to accept the proposal.
Poland showed some new thinking - and teaches the commission a lecture in democracy. You better think twice before out-smarting the parliament.
Posted by dr at December 24, 2004 2:05 PM
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