No software patents in the EU!

[X|Rolando]

http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020505,39174245,00.htm

Hooray for us!

 

[The Monkey]

Yeah right, we don't need the yanks....

 

[Maxi]

All hail poland!

 

[Kangy]

Ooh, interesting.

Yay for Poland.

 

[Gray Fox]

Can anybody explain what this actually means, and what the implications are.

 

[X|Rolando]

It means you cant do like Microsoft - patent somthing you didnt even invent, such as patenting the "to-do" phrase / feature and then suing everybody who has "to-do" in their source code. Good old pure capitalism, you gotta love it.