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IBM's patent offensive

IBM's patent offensive

Posted Aug 14, 2003 8:46 UTC (Thu) by pointwood (subscriber, #2814)
In reply to: IBM's patent offensive by aaa27
Parent article: IBM's patent offensive

This is one of the major fights in Europe right now - the fight against software patents. So far "we" haven't been doing that well :(

Another big issue: Even though software patents isn't really allowed in Europe, thousands exists anyway :(

Basically, you're sadly mistaken if you think software patents isn't a problem here :(

More info can be found here:
http://swpat.ffii.org/ and/or http://www.eurolinux.org/


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