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Bill: Software Patenting Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Socialist Liberal Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: May 2108
Description[?]:
| A bill to permit software patents |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The patenting of software techniques.
Old value:: Software designs, techniques, formulae and algorithms cannot be patented.
Current: Software patents can be obtained from the patent office.
Proposed: Software patents can be obtained from the patent office.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:17:19, September 07, 2005 CET | From |  Alorian Socialist Party | To | Debating the Software Patenting Act |
| Message | I feel I must oppose this one, patents hold back society and are a mearly a tool of the capitalist to restrict development. We support the free sharing of ideas for our economy. |
| Date | 18:47:46, September 07, 2005 CET | From | Socialist Liberal Party | To | Debating the Software Patenting Act |
| Message | Yes, but we need software. YWe need to reward those who come up with the software and not just let lazy people copy it. |
| Date | 12:12:15, September 08, 2005 CET | From | Alorian Socialist Party | To | Debating the Software Patenting Act |
| Message | Software will still be generated, the person/s who invents it is in a paid job and will probably get a bonus for the excellent work. This shoulod be reward enough any more is capitalist greed. We would still get software and if people copy it then they will be doing it too improve the product. OOC: Look at Firefox, Openoffice, GIMP etc, all non-patented free release software, all pushing the boundries of their fields and in many cases considered better than the licenced editions, we dont need licences that is what we have and this bill would damage that! |
| Date | 16:44:44, September 08, 2005 CET | From | Democratic Liberal Party | To | Debating the Software Patenting Act |
| Message | I see no reason to oppose this bill. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 146 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 151 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 103 |
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