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Patent infringement suit filed against Red Hat (No Lobbyists As Such)Patent infringement suit filed against Red Hat (No Lobbyists As Such)Posted Jun 30, 2006 19:27 UTC (Fri) by riel (subscriber, #3142)In reply to: Patent infringement suit filed against Red Hat (No Lobbyists As Such) by smoogen Parent article: Patent infringement suit filed against Red Hat (No Lobbyists As Such)
Wasn't this after the "software patent directive" was amended to explicitly exclude software from being patentable?
That is, after the law proposal was changed to make it explicitly impossible to patent software, free software people had an interest in making sure this (changed) directive was passed.
Of course, the European Commission quickly withdrew the whole thing, since the proposal now said the opposite of what they wanted...
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