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Story: Campaigners celebrate patent directive defeat
Posted by: Arthur B. (Friday 8 July 2005, 12:51 AM)
To Simon Gentry.
"Today’s decision represents a lost opportunity for Europe to establish a common ground for high-tech innovation that would help foster further successes and development in this field."
Common ground or mutual assured destruction for some and being taken hostage for most?
Let's not forget who already stock-piled patents and who has not. And has the warchest to make use of it. With the introduction of a new legal weapon that is software patents things would even be more unbalanced then they're now so how would that facilitate high-tech innovation rather then struggle for survival, pre-emptive strikes and overall stagnation because most budgets would mostly be allocated towards legal defense and research then.
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