Danish Computer Professionals on Software Patents

Stefane Fermigier writes "PROSA, the Danish computer professionals association (not to be confused with Prosa Labs, the italian embedded Linux company btw), has issued a strongly worded statement against software patents in Europe: "PROSA is concerned that the desire to introduce software patents is not rooted in a wish to encourage innovation, but instead to create new commodities for dominant companies in the trade and jobs for lawyers and patent advisor. Today, source code can be protected by copyright provided it, as a work, has sufficient work levels (is not trivial). Based on this, the binary versions derived thereof can also be protected by copyright. PROSA believes that this protection, which covers the primary element in a software product, constitutes an adequate protection.""