NZ Draft Bill Rules Out Software Patents

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 30, 2010 @09:12PM from the plus-it's-beautiful-there dept.

Korgan writes "In what must be a first in the face of ACTA and US trade negotiations pressure, a Parliamentary select committee has released a draft bill that explicitly declares that software will no longer be patentable in New Zealand. FTA: 'Open source software champions have been influential in excluding software from the scope of patents in the new Patents Bill. Clause 15 of the draft Bill, as reported back from the Commerce Select Committee, lists a number of classes of invention which should not be patentable and includes the sub-clause "a computer program is not a patentable invention."'"

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Re:Bad wording? by bunratty · 2010-03-31 00:12 · Score: 0, Flamebait

The problem is I never said I know better than Knuth. That was your strawman.

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Re:Bad wording? by bunratty · 2010-03-31 01:34 · Score: 0, Flamebait

It's not about "wrong" or "right". It's about a difference of opinion. I'm absolutely not saying Knuth is wrong. Do you see everything in life so black and white?

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