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August 28, 2003
Discover: Built-In Spam.
Steven Johnson. Software designers are quietly integrating commercial transactions into ordinary applications. Before too long your spreadsheet may start selling you stock tips, and for the low, low price of $1.50, your word processor might offer to clean up that last paragraph you wrote.
Network World: EU software patent plan draws fire.
A group of economists has blasted a proposed European Union law on software patents, characterizing it as damaging to technological innovation and Europe's software industry. The European Parliament is scheduled to vote on the "patentability of computer-implemented inventions" directive on Monday.
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