Avoiding Software Patents in Europe
Lawrence Lessig tries to persuade the Europeans not to extend patents to software.
He says that the American patent system has gone so badly wrong that its former head, James E. Rogan (Republican), has characterized it as a “crisis” (note: I didn’t read the original Rogan quote because it is part of the LA Times’ private archives).
I think most people in the software industry know that many software patents are outrageous but there has been no mass protest because thus far, software patents have not been widely enforced.