Patents and Linux

Rui Miguel Seabra rms at 1407.org
Mon May 17 17:31:54 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 18:17 +0100, Paul Thomas wrote:
> My reading of the issue is that the EP amendments were sufficiently narrow 
> to make some existing patents illegal and that's why they were dropped. Of 
> course, this is by no means a as much fun as a conspiracy theory...

The EP amendments are detailed enough to stop software patents.

They have been dropped by people who have been lobbied to allow patents
on software, business models, any processing of instructions.

Rui
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