No, not just corporate pressure groups...
Rabbits and foxes
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| At an FFII meeting last week, I realised what governments have been
| thinking. Patents = innovation. This seems obvious but it took me a while
| to grasp. Governments actually believe that more patents means more
| innovation.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/rabbits_and_foxes
Also today:
Years of deadlock on EU patent bring some new thinking
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| 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.
| Gates, chairman of Microsoft, wants a simple system that will
| allow the world's largest software maker and other companies
| to protect their intellectual property in the European Union -
| and profit from licensing their patents.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/08/business/patents.php
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