[HN Gopher] OSI to the European Commission: make space for paten...
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       OSI to the European Commission: make space for patent-free
       standards too
        
       Author : reedciccio
       Score  : 86 points
       Date   : 2022-05-19 14:08 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (blog.opensource.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (blog.opensource.org)
        
       | fjfbsufhdvfy wrote:
       | Let's do this, and then also delete software patents in the US.
        
       | car_analogy wrote:
       | What angers me most is that we have to deal with software patents
       | in the EU _at all_ , despite the EU patent convention excluding
       | from patentability "programs for computers as such".
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       | Somehow, the "as such" has been interpreted to make the exclusion
       | entirely meaningless, since algorithms in pure software running
       | on generic hardware _still_ get patented.
       | 
       | The farcical excuse is that software is not "software as such"
       | and "is patentable if it provides a new and non-obvious
       | 'technical' solution to a technical problem". But that is
       | _already_ a condition of patentability, so the interpretation is
       | functionally equivalent to the exception being absent. Literally
       | ignoring the law.
        
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