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Story: Patent directive faces fishy future

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Software patents have been available in europe now for many years, and are routinely granted by the european patent office.

This truth is often overlooked by the open source community.

The directive (or, at least, the version which was presented by the commission) is aimed at maintaining this status quo.

My question is this:

If the open source community is so sure that the directive will bring doom, and given that the directive will not actually change anything, why has this doom not already taken place?

I think that the directive must be passed, and passed quickly, if we are to be certain of maintaining the present high standards of the software patent system in europe.

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