On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 20:42 +0000, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
I hope they find the necessary prior art, but I think this is also interesting from the point of view of making the software patent problem understandable to politicians.
Spam and viruses are social problems. Trend Micro are giving us an example to cite so that we can explain to MEPs that software patents block solutions to social problems.
I'm wondering if/how we should build on this...
Diseases are real social problems too but yet we have patents on drugs.
Careful it's a slippery slope.
Simo.