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Patenting In The Burst Test
gerddie writes "Heise has an interview with S. Kiesewetter-Köbinger, a patent examiner of the German PA, about the cultural break, software patents will impose to Europe if they become valid. He points out the danger to open source and science, and that with patents on software even mathematical methods would become patentable because there is no longer any difference. There is also a companion article competition in the court room, that gives some more insight in the history and current state of the patent system. All is in german, but as always the fish is your friend."
*sigh* someone should patent First Post
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Karma be damned... thank you, whoever you are for saying what I didn't!!! There's no room for that kind of crap here, although it's also been stated that if we "don't feed the trolls, they may go away."
Like I said, Karma be damned, I'll continue to rebuff that kind of crap.
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