Patents vs. bananas

@ 17:12

Janne, summarizing the recent software patents related events:

[…] the European Council caused a major blow to the democracy in the EU, and just walked over the European Parliament and its own judicial processes by accepting the Directive for Software patents […] However, should the directive pass, not all is lost for Open Source.
TBUW


Meanwhile, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wishes to break the use of the so-called Banana Republic rhetoric apart from other criticism directed towards European Union, the proposed EU Constitution or European integration:

I've heard the rhetoric of the Council of Ministers being an undemocratic organ before, and I have discussed this claim before. The important point is that the Council of Ministers is an organ that directly represents the member states and consists of cabinet members of each state. Each cabinet and hence each member of the Council is directly responsible to their own national parliament, and if a member of the Council behaves contrary to the will of his or her national parliament, it is an internal problem of that particular member state, and it does not reflect on the Council as an organ of the Union.
AJK




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