[quote="upset_guy"...with support from Germany and France
...you were lied by your governments (that's not news...) who told they were to abstain or vote against these changes (e.g. Germany). ...[/quote]

I visited this link (which is sponsored by Microsoft) and found no reference to Germany.
I wrote an email to the two parties of government, the green party 'Die Grünen' which responded in few hours, claiming they will fight against those patents, and to the SPD - well - I guess they're sleeping...

I googled for 'Softwarepatente' and found this interesting link, giving examples
http://swpat.ffii.org/pikta/index.de.html

Replace 'de' with 'en' knoppix user are used to this excercise - or click on one of the flag-symbols, to visit a translation to your favourite language.