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Insanity is a web patent

This is just another sign that patenting concepts for the behaviour of website systems is insane. This is a big boy in the school yard bullying another. Smaller e-commerce developers and retail sites, will they live in fear of Big Blue sending the men in black to shut them down? Na, we'll just get on with making good e-commerce websites. There's too many of us out there - they can't take us all down.

I run a UK e-commerce software company, so I’m wondering when we Europeans will turn our backs on the US market and instead look to the rest of Europe and the Far East for business were we are free of this patent of web concepts crap. Stuff ‘em.

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