dutch take strong stance on software-patents

Tom tom at ricardo.de
Mon Feb 19 04:55:25 PST 2001


sparky wrote:
> > the dutch parliament members have made a decision today that
> > software-patents in the netherlands shall either remain banned, and
> > the law be cleared up in this respect, or subject to a scrutiny that
> > shall be strict enough to eliminate most of the 30,000 "garbage
> > patents" (as the meeting report calls it!) currently granted by the
> > european patent office.
> >
> >
> Got a reference?
> 

posted to discussie at opensource.nl by Luuk van Dijk who, I think,
attended the hearing. note that no law or such has been passed so far,
the MPs had a hearing to make up their mind, and among others, free
software people had been invited.


I can dig out the full mail, if you want it.





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