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For the last few years the European Patent Office (EPO) has, contrary to the letter and spirit of the existing law, granted more than 30000 patents on rules of organisation and calculation claimed in terms of general-purpose computing equipment, called "programs for computers" in the law of 1973 and "computer-implemented inventions" in EPO Newspeak since 2000.
Europe's patent movement is pressing to legitimate this practise by writing a new law. Although the patent movement has lost major battles in November 2000 and September 2003, Europe's programmers and citizens are still facing considerable risks. Here you find the basic documentation, starting from the latest news and a short overview.
I already signed the pettion, and I urgently ask others to do so too.
If these mot***ers get there way, playing/working with computers could become completly different for us.
And I don't think it would be any better.
If you see what some companies patent these days. It's realy outragious.
Yesterday I read some wher that MS patented todo lists like in outlook and evolution. Is everybody going mad?
