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ZDNet UK: Patent Directive ‘Could Halt Linux Development’

“The European Commission’s decision on Monday to reject demands
to rewrite the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive could
seriously damage open source software development in Europe,
according to a legal expert.

“Jeremy Mark Malcolm, an information technology lawyer
specialising in Internet-related law and speaker at the forthcoming
Linux conference in Canberra, told ZDNet UK sister site ZDNet
Australia that patent laws could damage the European open source
development community…”

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