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Linux champion Munich welcomes patent delay
The mayor of Munich has hailed Poland's courageous stand on software patents, as his city government moves from Windows to open source.
The mayor of German city Munich has welcomed the EU Council's failure to ratify a directive that could allow the widespread patenting of software in Europe, as the city had been concerned that software patents could scupper its plans to migrate to Linux.
The European Council had been scheduled to adopt the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive at a meeting on Tuesday afternoon. But the plan was derailed by Polish undersecretary of science and information technology Wlodzimierz Marcinski who successfully argued for a delay.
Christian Ude, the mayor of Munich, has hailed Marcinski's actions and hopes that changes can now be made to the directive.
Source: ZDNet UK
