EC pushes on with patent directive

Maybe those afflicted would get more traction if they started referring to it as the "Cesession Directive" or the "Bring Back The Guillotine Directive". It's obvious to me that, like religious zealots everywhere, these Corporate Fundamentalists are going to keep doing this until either they wear their opponents down and get what they want, or they see that they're likely to be appropriately punished. Firing a PR shot across their bow now might save a lot of bullets later.

I guess I don't understand politics.

the topic was brought up, and shut down.

It was brought up through the side door and shut down.

It was brought in thorugh the backdoor and shut down.

Wouldn't people get the hint, that this topic was being pushed in even though not all parties agree? That somebody want thsi to go through no matter what could happen to the economies of the EU?

Like I said the I don 't understand politics

This story is going back and forth each day. Apparently it is off the Agenda again, Look at the Groklaw article here http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050211133435297 and while you are there read about the MS dying. It is interesting that Malone seems to use the same Thinslicing method as described in the recent widely covered book Blink by Gladwell http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0316172324/qid...