Re: [Patents] newsscan: Software patent limits 'go too far'

[Seth Johnson <seth.johnson@RealMeasures.dyndns.org>]

Jean-Baptiste Soufron wrote:
> 
> The problem is that lax in itself does mean NOTHING. Law has to be
> interpretated by judges and every interpretation is a new law in itself.
> It's both a good and bad thing but it is certainly something you should
> all have in mind when you speak about these directives.
> 
> Whatever the european law will tell, there will always be a way to turn
> around and to protect softwares by patents if politics and judges are
> convinced it's a good thing to do.


They introduced the phrase "as such" because they wanted to say that
software was different and could not be covered by patents.

But of course law doesn't mean anything, so I must be wrong!  I'm *so*
*very* sorry to have taken up your time with such an obviously meaningless
point.

ROTFLMAO

Seth

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