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CEC Software Patent Consultation 2000 Submissions: Richard Castanet

A french information scientist in charge of work at Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique explains very much in detail and with a lot of interesting examples and references what software patents are and how they harm the development of software, both research and commercial applications

author:

Richard Castanet

Date of Submission:

2000-12-12

files:

castanet.pdf and local copy

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