p2pnet.net News:- The European Parliament has unanimously rejected the European Computer Implemented Inventions Directive, backed by monopolies such as Microsoft.

If it had passed, the bill would have allowed software to be patented.

Now, however, it must survive another round of consultation during which, “the software patents bill could be substantially re-drafted or even scrapped,” says the BBC.

Microsoft recently threatened to kill 800 Danish jobs if Denmark opposed the bill.

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See:-
scrapped - EU software patent law faces axe, BBC News Online, February 17, 2004
800 Danish jobs - Gates blackmailed Danish gv’ment, p2pnet, February 15, 2005

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