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Nature 436, 173 (14 July 2005) | doi:10.1038/436173b; Published online 13 July 2005
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The European Parliament has overwhelmingly thrown out a legislative proposal that would have streamlined the continent's existing patchwork of software patenting rules.The parliament's 648–14 vote reflected widespread criticism that the proposal would have helped large companies to claim control of software concepts — hurting smaller firms and Europe's powerful open-source software movement (see Nature 435, 411; 200510.1038/435411a
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HTTP Status 500 -
type Exception report
message
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet execution threw an exception
root cause
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Tomcat logs.