Arlene McCarthy is the MEP proposing to amend the operations of the European patent office, and permit software patents in Europe.
Last week, the Guardian printed this story by Nick Hill and rms setting out the free software position on why software patents should be avoided.
Now, McCarthy’s response:
We have an obligation to legislate not just for one section of the software industry who seeks to impose its business model on the rest of industry, which moreover is not ‘free’, but is actually a different form of monopoly by imposing a copyright licence system on users.
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