* CiaranOriordan SwpatBulletPointsMon, 27 Jun 2005 07:00:01 -0000 terms and tricks
* '''Software patents facilitate off-shore out-sourcing of jobs'''. When companies own rights - to using software ideas, development + needed for using the software ideas they use, development can be moved to low cost economies without fear that the experienced european staff they're letting go will form a competing venture.
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* '''In the 2nd reading, every abstention counts as a vote for the Council's text.'''
- * '''Tricky wordings must be done away with.''' the law must not rely on differences + * '''Tricky wordings must be done away with.''' the law must not rely on meaningless + classifications like "pure software", grammatical tricks like "software as such", and + undefined terms like "technical", and "field of technology". - between "pure software", when there is no unpure software, "technicial software", - where there is no non-technical software, and "software as such" - these are legal - fiction. URL: http://www.ifso.ie/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi/SwpatBulletPoints?action=diff