A government representative said that 648 out of 729 members of the European Parliament voted Wednesday to reject the proposal, called the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive, which would have widened the extent to which software could be patented .

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Subject	Posted by	Date
Congatulations !	Sparhawk	6 Jul, 17:19
GREAT!	penguin_lover	6 Jul, 17:20
Proud to be European	polrus	6 Jul, 18:02
Re: Proud to be European	LinuxAdvocate	6 Jul, 22:38
yippiiii, we did it, deniying the stupid idea called E-PA$E$T$	tameritoke	6 Jul, 19:56
God news, bad news	KnuxT15	6 Jul, 23:51
M$	cadstarsucks	7 Jul, 12:48
EU rejects patents	nikkentobi	7 Jul, 17:34
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