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Bill: Software patents
Details
Submitted by[?]: Fatherland 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: January 2170
Description[?]:
| This will be for good of us all. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The patenting of software techniques.
Old value:: Software patents can be obtained from the patent office.
Current: Software patents can be obtained from the patent office.
Proposed: Software designs, techniques, formulae and algorithms cannot be patented.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 04:17:08, January 11, 2006 CET | From |  Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the Software patents |
| Message | How do you think this will be better for us? |
| Date | 19:05:20, January 11, 2006 CET | From | Revolutionary Socialist Alliance | To | Debating the Software patents |
| Message | Let's not buy and sell human thought. |
| Date | 21:13:51, January 11, 2006 CET | From | Libertad y Justicia | To | Debating the Software patents |
| Message | Human thought belongs to the individual who thought. Taking away patents would take away the right of the individual to own his own being. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 108 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 205 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 48 |
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