David Wheeler wrote: The FFII has learned that the EU Council of Ministers has decided to ignore the EU Parliment, and instead plan to establish a reckless "patent everything" approach to software and business models. This is an incredibly bad idea; US experience has shown uncontrolled patenting is an unmitigated disaster for commerce, and there's no reason for Europe to import bad ideas. It's also exposing some serious problems with EU governance; members of the European Parliament across the political spectrum are condemning this blatant disrespect for democracy in Europe.

Hence, the next website rebuild will compile a new anti-patent banner on all pages.