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Story: Software patents make a mockery of European ideals

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If the EP won't sweep this from the table then the EU will have given birth to a new economic world power:

Japan, China, Korea, India, etc.

Because in case someone hasn't figured it out yet. We live in an information age. And information needs need innovative software. With software patents in the hands of the powerfull few however only their economic business rules will govern how innovative EU software is allowed to be.

Simply put: as long as we can be made to pay for crappy software that is exactly what we'll be allowed to do. Over and over again.

As for the EU citizens, they can watch their (tax) money, ideas, innovations, top talent, etc ship out either to the West or the East.

The "Lisbon Agenda" is clearly without practical vision. Quote: "the EU will become the world's most competitive and dynamic knowledge-driven economy by 2010". Yeah right, how do you compete against thousands and thousands of software patents that last decades? Waive with your enormously expensive software patent (that somehow can't be dragged through court for years by laywers that try to dispute it) of your own?

Hey you, bully across the street with fourty experienced armed free cage fighters at your side. Look, I've got a tooth pick, you better watch out for me. I'm sure the bully will allow the tooth pick man to become something he will be worried about given the good sport he's been all his life. Not.

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