"The EU Software Patent Directive has been or will be scheduled on the agenda of the Agriculture and Fishery Meeting of the 24th of January as an A item, i.e. an item that is to be adopted without a vote. This was announced today by officials of the European Commission and of the EU Council Presidency at various meetings. The entry is not on the official meeting calendar yet," according to the anti-software patent body FFII ( Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure).
"This is the second time that the Council of Ministers has tried to sneak through software patents, using dirty tricks and lies," comments Richard Stallman.
