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Story: Patent restart request ratified
Posted by: Anonymous (Thursday 17 February 2005, 3:58 PM)
What is needed is for measures to be taken to stop the corruption and stop the large software companies using their leverage (and a few illegal blackmail techniques like Microsoft had done in Denmark) to influence government's votes on this topic.
Its the standard consumer problerm really. The companies are obviously willing to spend millions on lobbying because they know they will get it back 10x if software patents are allowed in.
The public and the small software houses - whole both undeniably stand to loose out if software patents are allowed - don't have the money to lobby on the issue.
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What is needed is for measures to be taken to stop... Anonymous -
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