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A massive grass-roots effort&mdash;the first one ever directed at convincing the European Parliament&mdash;resulted in defeat of the directive. But that does not mean we convinced half of Parliament to reject software patents. Rather, it seems the pro-patent forces decided at the last minute to junk their own proposal.