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Story: Patent directive adoption just days away

Posted by: Arthur B. (Tuesday 1 February 2005, 9:09 PM)

Very interesting article:
http://news.com.com/The+open-source+patent+conundrum/2010-1071_3-5557340.html
(also read the reader comments)

Software patents are not about open source versus closed source. It's more about those with patents versus those without (e.g.: your company having a website which breaks at least one US software patent). In even shorter words: software patents are about if you want to pay 'software tax' or not. And if you believe if only a few big, fat and rich companies in the world is all that is needed to provide the rest of us with all the affordable innovation we need for the next few decades.