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Bruce Badger

2007-01-08, 7:12 pm

There is a petition up on the web site of the UK Prime Minsiter regarding
software idea patents.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/softwarepatents/

The petition is not well worded IMO but it is the right sentiment.

Any UK citizen or UK resident can sign, and I urge you to do so if you
can. Software idea patents are a Very Bad Thing for everyone in the
software industry with a very few exceptions. Software idea patents are a
Very Good Thing for patent lawyers.

More information is available on the FFII site. Their FAQ is a good
starting place:

http://www.ffii.org/ Frequently_Ask...br /> e_patents

All the best,
Bruce
Bruce Badger

2007-01-08, 7:12 pm

On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:59:58 +0000, Bruce Badger wrote:

> There is a petition up on the web site of the UK Prime Minsiter regarding
> software idea patents.


Doh! That would be the UK Prime Minister.

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