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Story: EC slipping software patents 'through backdoor'

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As long as patents and anything that has to do with them in whole hasn't been thoroughly checked and put and kept in place as agreed upon across the board there will be holes left that will be exploited by lobbiest and other commercially motivated parties. And these will be holes with high potential yet totally overseen by the misinformed and misguided (political) decision makers.

As usual the devil is in the details. And as long as politicians don't get that there's absolutely no need for a singularity with enough force to impact the whole of Europa in one blow. Which is a crying shame in itself because a united Europa, yet with leadership that knows how to deal with all the rotten and dirty business tricks in the world, would be a force that the rest of the world will have to pay attention to.

Thing is that there's a world of difference between what was said, what was agreed upon, what was understood, what was done, how things turned out, etc, etc.

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