EU Patents Won't Stay Dead

sconeu writes "Apparently the EC is ignoring the restart directive, and has placed software patents as an A-Item on the Council of Minister's agenda with an aim for approval on Monday." From the article: "The directive is pitched as offering greater protection for software developers. Opponents, including many in the European parliament, fear it will simply provide big players, including America's powerful and litigious software giants, with a very large stick to batter upstart developers and the Open Source movement." Update: 03/04 22:04 GMT by Z : And just as quick as you please Denmark stops things in their tracks. Denmark's objection means that there will have to be further debate before the patents get the stamp.

Obligatory Shakespeare reference

[SmokeHalo]

They're eager to show that nothing is rotten in the state of Denmark. :)

Re:US influence peddling goes world-wide

[Fred_A]

The other option is to tell the US to fuck off. How about growing a set of balls and doing it?

The whole planet has been doing so for a while. It may not have been aired on Fox News though, so it might be news to you.

Re:Here they are...

[DavidTC]

Those fools. If they let their own people run their country, how the hell are the plutocrats going to make any money from them?

The people of Poland need to take a long, hard look at themselves, and realize it's not just rich Americans they're hurting, and it's not just the rich in other EU counties, it's their own rich too. Is causing this senseless and irrepairable harm to their betters going to help anything?

This sort of backwards thinking has no place in a modern nation. Frankly, I think it's time the EU invaded Poland. I'm sure someone there still has those plans laying around.

Alternately, you can just tell us Americans that Poland has chemical weapons and is planning to invade Kansas

Tell them the Poles are going to land on the Kansas coast while others invade Kansas through Canada. That sounds improbable geographically, as Kansas has no coast and does not border Canada, but apparently us Americans are complete fucking morons who will believe anything the government tells us, especially people in Kansas. (Kansasians?) (Some people will suspect I am being sarcastic here, but I am not.)

Although you'll want to give us a map first and put up some big signs pointing at Poland, or we might accidently invade Greece or Spain. (All you little countries look alike to us.)