Following the recent adoption by the European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) of the controversial directive on the patentability of computerised inventions, and the Committee's rejection of the majority of the 256 proposed amendments, software developers in EU member states have been divided on the way forward.
Last week, it was reported in the Irish media that a delegation of Irish software firms, including representatives from multinationals such as Microsoft and delegates from smaller Irish firms, headed to Brussels to urge the European Parliament to approve the text when it votes in July.
However, speaking to the Irish media at the weekend, Fergal Breene, founder of software development group IrishDev, argued that Microsoft and its ilk are actually the driving force behind the campaign to allow the patentability of software.
"We are 100 percent opposed," he announced, continuing: "We're the programmers, we're the people actually affected by this, and we are strongly opposed."
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