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Story: Judge rules computer programs can be patented
Not this nonsense again!
Is that the same America where even Microsoft is calling for sweeping patent reform, due to 'a flood of patent applications and an "explosion of sometimes-abusive litigation"'?
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2005/03/11/ms_patent_reform/
If you want to start patenting programming methods then by all means, just try writing any significant program without using a single idea that someone else has already thought of.
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