Mårten Mickos writes about software patents and how they are anti-business and anti-innovation. This is especially true for small companies who do not have afford to build a huge patent portfolio in order to prevent possible infringement claims from the big guys.
EU is now in the process of changing its legislation regarding software patents. Open-source movement among others have heavily objected for the changed that are lobbied by large companies such as Nokia.
Posted at August 9, 2004 09:54 AM