LinuxInsider: The Fuzzy Software Patent Debate Rages On

“The European Commission recently tolled the death knell for the
EU Software Patent Directive, or more precisely, the ‘Directive on
the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions.’

“Like most Americans, I am fairly clueless about the EU
political process, and I wouldn’t presume to write about exactly
how it was killed. But the decision may have been swayed by an
eleventh-hour public relations pitch against the directive by
open-source spokesmen from the United States. On that aspect, I
will add my two cents…”

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