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Bill: Encouraging Private Initiative
Details
Submitted by[?]: People's Radical Party
Status[?]: passed
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: March 2545
Description[?]:
| Following the decision to allow closed-source software, the GPRP contends that it is also important to permit patents to be held on software techniques. |
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 | 09:53:06, March 12, 2008 CET | From | Republican Coalition | To | Debating the Encouraging Private Initiative |
| Message | Abstain, we are unable to come to a conclusion on the issue |
| Date | 15:19:48, March 12, 2008 CET | From | Revolutionary Socialist Front | To | Debating the Encouraging Private Initiative |
| Message | No. Patents are far too restrictive, much moreso even than copyright (as per closed source software). |
| Date | 20:53:27, March 12, 2008 CET | From | Royal Socialist Party of Hulstria | To | Debating the Encouraging Private Initiative |
| Message | Opposed |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 303 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 245 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 202 |
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| Random quote: "If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want." - Mother Teresa of Calcutta quotes |