On Tuesday (21 Dec), the Polish government prevented the Council of the European Union from adopting a “common position” on software patents. Some of Europe’s leading software developers (Linus Torvalds, Monty Widenius and Rasmus Lerdorf) had previously denounced the Council’s proposal as being “deceptive, dangerous, and democratically illegitimate”. Polish deputy minister for science and information technology Wlodzimierz Marcinski personally flew to Brussels to ask the Council for more time, at the eleventh hour.

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