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Eng: EU directive on the patentability of software was accepted by the EU council today. Observers note they have broken their own regulations and that this shows the council can do whatever they wish.

Šodien ES padomē tika pieņemta ES direktīva par programmatūras patentēšanu.

ZDnet raksta: Opponents are furious that the EU Council has approved the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive. The future of software patenting in Europe now lies in the hands of the European Parliament.

ES padome ir tieši tā institūcija, kurā ir pārstāvēta katra ES valsts. Līdz ar to šajā gadījumā atbildību un konkrētu viedokli var prasīt tieši no mūsu valdības. Interesanti arī kāda ir bijusi IT organizāciju, tādu kā LITTA, nostāja un rīcība.

Katrā ziņā Latvija nav no tām valstīm, kuras būtu aktīvi nostājušās pret to, ka programmatūru varēs patentēt. Varbūt patenti šajā direktīvas redakcijā mums būs labi? Un kurš Latvijas ministrs pārstavēja mūs šajā sanāksmē un kādu viedokli viņš pauda?

FFII sniedz vairāk informācijas par šo lietu: Council Presidency Adopts Software Patent Agreement Against Council's Rules

Jonas Maebe, FFII Board Member:

It is absolutely unfathomable what happened today. I cannot see how the promoters of the European Constitution can still support it with a straight face. This event shows that something is clearly rotten in the city of Brussels at the Council building. Why on Earth do we still have the rules that state that national parliaments should be taken into account by the Council?

Things would be much easier if we scrapped all those rules and simply wrote down "The Council presidency and Commission can do together whatever they like". There's no need for those pesky democratically elected parliamentarians to interfere with the smooth decision making process of the Council, since its only goal appears to be to please big business and to produce as many texts as the sausage machine can bear.

This is absolutely disgusting.

FFII Open letter: EU Constitution shown to be a Farce (7-Mar-05)