[LINK] EU gives green light to software patents

[Deus Ex Machina]

EU gives green light to software patents 
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050307-4677.html

"Despite the protests of Denmark, Poland, and Portugal, the EU Council
has approved legislation (the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive)
that introduces software patents into the EU. From what I understand of
the EU's organizational structure, this means that the patents directive
will now go to the EU Parliament for a vote, where it will most probably
be voted into law.