Those silly European pro-patent reformers are at it again. Having failed last year in an attempt to stifle the software industry by imposing the same type of unreasonable patents we have here in America, pro-patent huge mega corporations are once again preaching doom to European MP’s unless they offer up free commerce on the continent to their dark masters.
Or maybe they’re just trying to get software patents on things like how many mouse clicks it takes to access a hyperlink approved. Either way, this spells another round of back room fights for the European free software movement, programmers, and right thinking people in general.
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