[Gllug] European Council Approves Software Patents

[Alain Williams]

On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 09:01:57AM +0100, Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Wed, 19 May 2004, Richard Jones wrote:
> 
> > The news is really bad for people running small software companies :-(
> 
> Not just software companies but any company or business that uses software 
> or trades on the Internet. The impact could be far wider that many of us 
> have thought - don't forget such wonders as "the one click patent" etc.

Once the two biggest markets (USA & Europe) have s/ware patents, the big patent
holders will have incentive to seek to collect ``what is rightfully theirs''.

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