there are many reasonable people who would consider software a field of technology.
I would say that there are few reasonable people who would consider that software is not a field of technology.
This directly related to one of the problems of the current wording of the directive.
Requiring software to have a "technical effect" for it to be patentable, is, in my opinion, requiring software to be software.
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