By Graeme Wearden
Published: Monday 01 November 2004
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Andrew Clark
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Wareham, Dorset, UK
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IT Consultant
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This looks like another case of very bad law in the making. Software already enjoys copyright protection so why not just make that work?
Patenting software is fraught with all sorts of problems.
"Prior Art" should invalidate virtually all patent applications as very few "new" techniques are sufficiently different from established ones.
Enforcing existing copyright law would give software authors all the protection they need.
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