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Story: Software patents campaigners honoured
Posted by: Brian Portlock (Wednesday 28 September 2005, 9:16 PM)
The CII directive is dead, but now the focus must move on the the European Patents Project. We must ensure that software patents do not sneak in through this measure.
Furthermore I believe that we must take a positive stand to IMPROVE patent quality. The anti-software patents movement (of which I am a member, both FFII and NoSoftwarePatents) is not necessarily against ALL patenting. Patents are wrong for software but right for inventions. I will certainly be advocating this view to both FFII and NSP.
I feel that we need to guide the new patent projects in this direction so that developers are not stymied as in the US but true inventors can achieve protection for their inventive efforts.
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Story: Software patents campaigners honoured
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Kudos! But it's not over yet. The sw patent lobby... Olav Petri -
The CII directive is dead, but now the focus... Brian Portlock -
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http://wiki.ffii.org/PatexamReformEn Anonymous -
Users are affected more than developers... Anonymous
