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Story: Lobbyists prepare for next software patent battle

Posted by: Andrew Meredith (Tuesday 24 January 2006, 12:57 PM)

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There is an "Any other comments" at the end of the document. State your case there in clear and polite terms.

I have responded as follows:

5.5 As an entrepreneur, engineer and trainer in the Free and Open Source Software industry, I would urge the EU to move away from trying to apply the patent system to software systems. It is the wrong system. It will allow the big guys to monopolise the industry and kill off the ability of the EU to compete on the world stage, India and the far east will take the fore and we will lose. It is that simple.