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Egressive is an open source software company, specialising in web applications built on the Drupal framework and Ubuntu Linux server infrastructure and support. We provide strategic IT consulting services and assist businesses and organisations in migrating to free and open source infrastructure, both on the server and the desktop. We maintain a significant open source hosting infrastructure and provide managed services both in New Zealand and overseas data centres.
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Submission on Software Patents
Peter Harrison has put together a strong submission to the Commerce Committee which is currently reviewing the Patent Bill going through Parliament. The NZOSS, like many others in the industry, is calling for a specific exclusion of Software as something that should be patentable.
The full submission is available here.
It is worth noting that the **Commerce** Committee only accepts submissions in hard copy format. It is disturbing that the committee responsible for reviewing an issue that is so fundamental to our industry seems to be so lacking in their own use of technology.
Many thanks to Peter for all his hard work on this.
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 PatentBillSubmission.pdf | 347.84 KB |