[TAG] Software patents

[John Karns]

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, mso at oz.net wrote:

> John Karns wrote:
>> Some say that the existance of the EP serves more to provide the illusion
>> of a democratic process and that their vote is not really meant to be
>> deterministic.  Again, I hope it proves not be the case, but the whole
>> matter has made a mockery of the concept of democratic process.
>
> Could somebody explain to us yanks what this means?  Is the European
> Parliament similar to the British and Canadian parliaments?  If they don't
> have ultimate power ("deterministic votes"), who does?  Or is it just a
> case of corporations buying certain key representatives?

For a pretty good explanation, see

http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=138862&cid=11623916

-- 
John Karns