[From FFII] The Petition Committee of the EU Parliament has formally accepted two major petitions against software patents, despite the representative of the European Commission and other MEPs asking that both petitions be rejected and declared ineligible.
The petitions were presented by Bernard Lang, for Eurolinux on behalf of quarter of a million European citizens and software professionals, and by Philippe Aigrain, on behalf of leading European computer scientists.
Full details and the texts of the speeches to the committee are available at FFII.org
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