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Story: Patent campaigners make government breakthrough

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What a complete farce! A bunch of programmers sitting about tring to understand "technical contribution". They wouldn't know it if it slapped them in the face! They're too busy ripping off other people's work and peddling it as they as their own - whcih is of course is why they want to kill off the CII Directive, so they continue to do so.

The fact is that patents protect innovation. they do in IT as they do in every other innovation-based industry. Why is IT any different ? (sorry to puncture your balloon, Geeks, but you're just the same as everyone else). base your views on FACT. Provie evidence that the curent practivce of granting what you call "software patents" is doing harm (and don't give US examples, give European ones. ..... Ah, the sound of silence).

The open source community has whippe3d itself into an hysterical tizz over something that is frankly a non-event. the downside is that they there is a chance, slight, but real, that they will succeed. Which will be great for the US, Japan, China, India, Oz, etc. etc. They're not going to dump their patenting systems. Which is great because it will ensure that the programmers will all have work making code for the inventors in those countries!

P.S. If you happen to be a hapless inventor, pack your bags and move to the States!

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