I imagine that Bruce Perens will spend much of the day in celebration: the European Parliament overwhelmingly rejected the software patents directive today in a landslide vote, 648-14.
"We buried a bad law and did so without flowers,'' said Eva Lichtenberger, an Austrian member of the parliament's Green group. "The legislation would have hindered the development […]

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I found this online demonstration by way of the Gentoo Linux site.
Learn about the European software patent protests here.
Bruce Perens offers a critical examination of the issue here.
I'm still looking for a good, readable article that is Canadian-specific on the issue. 

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