[Gllug] european software patents

[Richard Jones]

On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 07:09:44PM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> This is the sort ill-informed nonsense that does so much damage - how could it 
> possibly be the case that the directive, no matter how flawed, will mean the 
> end of the free software moevement in Europe?

Because Merjis Ltd (as an example) cannot defend itself against even
unenforceable patents? There are patents out there for all sorts of
common techniques (I know, I wrote one of them :-)

The cost for a small software company is simply far too high.

Rich.

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