Brussels, 07/10/2003 (Agence Europe) - Last Wednesday the Petitions Committee at the European Parliament declared that the two petitions on software patents were admissible. The first petition submitted by Eurolinux got together 280,000 signatures of which 6,000 came from SMEs and aims to promote so-called free software. The second is supported by 30 renown scientists such as Robin Milner from Cambridge University, who asked Parliament to ensure, "that it is impossible to patent ideas...