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Eurolinux Alliance 2000-12: Submission to the EC Consultation on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Rules of Organisation and Calculation (Programs for Computers)

Official response of the Eurolinux Alliance of Software Companies and Non-Profit Associations for a Free Information Infrastructure, written by Jean-Paul Smets and Hartmut Pilch in consultation with representatives of member associations. Cites a few typical examples of companies that would suffer from software patentability, explains how patents harm innovation and competition in the software field, criticises flaws in the consultation paper, proposes an alternative regulation that would only restate the current law in way that makes misinterpretation more difficult, comes with a voluminous appendix that contains many study papers on the question of software patentability

http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eukonsult00/eurolinux/index.en.html
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