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"en.20050705.6.2-041"2
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"Mr President, the way in which the software patents proposal came about is, to my mind, scandalous. Big businesses, such as Microsoft, see software patents as a means towards financial gain and, through the
they have had a hand in drafting the Commission proposal – a fact discovered by accident, as a result of the name of the author being left in the document by mistake. The Commission’s proposal bears the stamp of the incestuous culture of patent office managers, big companies’ patent lawyers and the Commission’s patent managers. Even though this House took corrective action in 2003, the Council of Ministers managed, by dint of dubious voting procedures, to put the proposal back on the table. There was no qualified majority of Member States and requests by various Member States to reopen negotiations were rejected out of hand.
Even in the Netherlands, the debate about software patents is dubious. While parliament was misinformed by the government, the Dutch officials continued to work on the proposal within the EU committees. The Dutch minister ignored parliament when decisions were taken in the Council of Ministers. I therefore support the amendments to reject this proposal. In my view, this House is making itself a laughing stock if it tolerates the way in which this legislative proposal came about."@en1
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