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Financial Times: Software Patents Ruling Represents Fair Compromise

“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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