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Story: EU votes through software patent changes

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Posted by: Anonymous (Friday 21 May 2004, 9:35 PM)

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We get the politicians and civil servants we deserve!. Europe faces a moribund economy with few prospects or opportunities of growth that might kick start it.

Software is an area that has some potential to help start that growth and in one quick move we hand the game to the Far East because of a presumed combination of incompetence and vested interests and a lack issue awareness among the people it ultimately affects: software developers and consumers. Whose fault is that...?

Will the last person leaving please turn out the lights (sic). (probably a patent lawyer?)

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