Monday, March 07, 2005

In the EU, the process is more important than the idea

There is an amazing piece of legislation being slipped into europan law right now and it is not because it is a good one. Yet it looks like we are running the risk of having a bad law because the EU does not want to do away with bad processes. The software patent directive has been adopted because

We are adopting the position for institutional reasons so as not to create a precedent which might have a consequence of creating future delays in other processes," the minister said, according to Mueller.


Mindboggling.

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