NZ Draft Bill Rules Out Software Patents

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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Someone seeing sense at last i see

[cheezegeezer]

And about time too , But of course you know who will be getting their collective panties in a big mother of a bunch right about now of course the same ones that support jerks like the RIAA MPAA and this recent bunch of tossers .

Keep it up NZ at least someone has got the balls to face up to the red white and blue bully boys

starts and stripes more like scars and strife :-) .

Re:Bad wording?

[bunratty]

It just isn't a good Slashdot discussion without the old appeal to authority fallacy.