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Financial Times: Software Patents Ruling Represents Fair Compromise

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“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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