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Story: EU delays patent decision
Posted by: Anonymous (Monday 20 December 2004, 5:45 PM)
God save us (small businesses and individual software developers and consumers) from this corporate madness based on pure greed and nothing else.
I'm afraid that in the future the centre of software innovation will gradually move away from the countries where strict software patents are accepted. Only people benefiting from strong software patents are a few big software corporations (that are afraid of competition). And in the long run even they may find out that they've actually shooted themselves in the leg when supporting this software patent foolishness.
The politicians promoting this directive don't know what they are talking about and/or are just doing what some of their big corporate sponsors are telling them to do.
Democracy? This a a good proof that the European Union is and has always been an anti-democratic union formed to restrict the power of local governments and democracy over corporate interests. EU Council is most of the time just pushing the corporate interests and little caring for democracry, small businesses or individual and human rights.
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