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Story: EU to throw patents in with the bath water

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Posted by: P.L.Hayes (Friday 17 December 2004, 9:37 PM)

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"Many of the people in the software industry have slightly got their blinkers on, and don't realise they are part of the larger industry that the patent system has to protect", said Peter Hayward of the UKPO.

They used to tell us that patents would be good for us, we just didn't understand.

Now apparently it is our duty to die for the greater good of the mobile phone manufacturers who 'need' software patents because...

ftp://ftp.phoneforge.net/phone_clones/nokia/nokia_6170.tar.gz

Lions led by donkeys, yet again.

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