Software patents

[Kon-Tiki]

Encountered a few sites with this page. It says something about software patents, but it's outdated by a week. It did get me wondering what it's all about, what these patents really are (will read more on that) and wether they got through or not.

[Andrew_Baker]

No, the patents have *already* gotten through. The fight right now is mainly because people are using patents to **** each other over. Also, the EU is strengthening their patent law and whatnot. check out the http://slashdot.org archives for more news on this subject and what you can do about it.