Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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| Oracle Corporation opposes the patentability of software. The Company
| believes that existing copyright law and available trade secret
| protections, as opposed to patent law, are better suited to protecting
| computer software developments.
|
| […]
|
| Compared to adequate copyright and trade secret protections, patent
| protection is excessively broad and enormously expensive.
|
| CHANGING THE PATENT SYSTEM
|
| Oracle has recommended that patent protection not be provided for
| computer software or computer software algorithms, for the reasons
| described above.
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Oracle have just gone up in my estimation.
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