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Financial Times: Software Patents Ruling Represents Fair Compromise

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 8, 2005

“Sir, Tobias Buck (‘New EU patents rules divide software
industry’, January 4), neglects to point out that, in the debate
over draft European Union legislation relating to patents for
computer-implemented inventions, almost no one in the software
industry in Europe actually welcomes the prospect of software
patents per se.

“The issue is all too easily, and incorrectly, cast as a battle
between big and small or even proprietary and open source
proponents…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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