Ben Finney wrote: 
On 21-Jan-2005, Roger Leigh wrote:
  
What exactly does Agriculture and Fisheries have to do with software
patents?  Surely that council is responsible for agriculture and
fisheries?
    

Precisely.  So pushing an addition to an existing bill, long after
discussion for the bill closes and a day before the vote, they tag some
patent law into it hoping that the council won't know enough to question
it.
If I did this with a printer on a shopping trolly after I had been through the checkouts everyone would recognize it for what it is.

Somehow because it happens in a non-commercial setting those involved seem to think it is legitimate. It is theft of proper representation at least, surely?

Sam