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Story: Software patent limits 'go too far'

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Democracy may not be so bad after all (cont.)

...although she must have been well aware that the real impact of her proposal was something completely different.

Instead of openly discussing the benefits or disadvantages of expanding the scope of patent legislation into new areas, and then leaving the technical design to a group of experts, she and the patent lobby chose to force the European Parliament to draft complex legislation more or less from the hip, in the turmoil of a plenary vote.

The fact that it managed to do so, and do it as well as it actually did, is something that leaves me rather impressed, and makes me quite prepared to give the renewed mandate to democracy.

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