Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 6th Jul 2005 11:53 UTC, submitted by GhePeU
The European Parliament today decided by a large majority to reject the software patents directive. This rejection was the logical answer to the Commission's refusal to restart the legislative process in February and the Council's unwillingness to engage in any kind of dialogue with the Parliament. Update: Sun and Red Hat made a joint statement today.
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It sounds like it was struck down because the governmental structure started stalling and yelling at each other, not because people realized there was something wrong with patenting software. Either the article wasn't specific enough about their motivations for the breakdown in communications, or this just slipped through the cracks. Open Source programmers seem to have won by default, and hopefully the opponents will be too tired to try again.
Now we need to reform the patent laws in the US, where they don't pay attention to who invented or thought of or used the idea first. Microsoft could probably go and patent the computer mouse. Or heck, maybe even a real mouse.