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Re: Oracle patents content management systems
« on: July 15, 2004, 09:39:37 AM »
I recently read an article where the US patent system was rather aptly described as "a train wreck". 'Nuff said.

I gather some Australian bloke even managed to get a patent for... - wait for it -  ...THE WHEEL!

Sadly, there is no reason to expect any European system to be any different, particularly since the law will have been pushed through by discarding democratic decisions and debate and just waving a few thousand euros under the noses of the right politicians.

Patents in general are wrong, and software patents in particular are an abomination. Ideas should be no more patentable than human genes. Oh, wait...
 :-x  :-x  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :-x  :-x
Bill Hoggett