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Re: [News] Gates Starts Pro-Software Patents Lobbying in Europe

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Robert Newson <ReapNewsB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> When companies rewrite the laws outside their own country/ies...
>> 
>> Years of deadlock on EU patent bring some new thinking
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | When Bill Gates visits Brussels on Thursday to speak with
>> | government officials, software developers and customers, he
>> | plans to wade into one of Europe's longest-running, most
>> | fruitless debates: the pursuit of a unified patent system.
> 
> For once, I'm totally in agreement with him...on the subject of software 
> patents, they should be unified to the European standard: ie disallowed...
> 

I couldn't agree more.  Fortunately, the UK doesn't appear to have
fallen into the trap here, so far.  Let's hope we can fight off the US
attack here.

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| Mark Kent   --   mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk  |
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