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Story: Patent directive 'could halt Linux development'
Posted by: Anonymous (Thursday 3 March 2005, 7:02 AM)
The risk is even greater for commersial software as there usually is a company with money worth sueing behind the software.
In the end what will happen is that software industry moves to some place where software patents are not allowed, and to avoid smuggling illegal software into the EU companies that use software will move as well. Often such move would be a good idea anyway as some of these countries have lower saleries and more potential customers than we can find at home.
So, if you are in software business, prepare to move to China or take up ecological farming.
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Story: Patent directive 'could halt Linux development'
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