No software patents for Europe!

July 6, 2005 Posted by mitch | legal, technology | 0 Comments

Theres posts all over, but I was reading it on Groklaw and they voted NO!! This is awesome... not the end of a three year battle but, definatly a big step in the *right* direction. The vote was 648 to 14 to throw out the proposed law.

PJ noted her favorite quote from none other than Steve Ballmer:

"There is important innovation coming out of the software industry,'' Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, said in Paris today before the parliament vote. "We think that innovation needs to be protected.''
Which PJ finnishes up with:

I will translate for you. I take that to mean: they would like to be protected from innovation by others.
And I must say I agree. Man I really think he's retarded... don't they have enough money? I mean they haven't "innovated" in years... which some of you might disagree with, but really, everything that could be somewhat considered innovation that came out of redmond, didn't actually come from there... they purchased and prossibly stole it from others.

Props to the European Union! Thanks for giving me some hope.