"could object on the grounds of "prior art.""

If you find "prior art".

But you suppose that software is worth patenting in the first place, which it should not be.

Software developers don't deserve protection of their speech under the 1st amendement?

Why should they be bothered to read and respect patents?

IBM is one of the companies shadow writing this bill, together with Qualcomm. Tillis organized a press conférence years ago where it was clear who participated in the drafting.

PERA has a similar wording as the list of exceptions to patentability in the European Patent Convention art52.2, although the category of 'computer programs' is missing from the exceptions. And it's written by people who want to abolish the Alice SCOTUS jurisprudence.

Github is a US company, they should not lobby the EU.

My PC in 1996 had 32mb RAM, i could have X and a browser.

I ran Linux 2.4.20 on 4MB RAM with LinuxAP.

"Patents themselves are a good idea, because inventive people should be rewarded for their contributions to the economy."

No, they are not a good idea.

Redhat is way too old software to be considered secure, even if their business is selling security.

Only "managers" who want to cover their ass are buying into that scheme.

About "Ransomware", it's mostly a Microsoft Windows problem, so don't be surprised if your Windows machine get ransomwared.

I have seen companies giving a Windows "secure laptop" to their employees, just to learn few month afterwards that 75% of their parc has been ransomwared.

"But if they can't collect taxes who is going to pay?"

You can still pay taxes, just the government has no way to check how much you earn.

I don't like this banking system where it is 1984.

In a blob universe, a binary blob is fixed by another binary blob.

That would be fun to exploit this one, and reflash the BIOS from a compromised OS, which can reflash the BIOS chip with the flashrom tool.

Intel has not learned from the debacle they had years ago.

Normal they think their binary blobs are not the problem.

"Windows" is not an open source program.

"Its actually a valuable process in the sense it is like documentation and code review."

Software patents are spam for software developers. They are an insult to what developers can and cannot write on their keyboard. We don't need inventors to tell us what we can or cannot write.

"technical" is a black hole.

That's a good idea to create a company that can be bought by Microsoft!

There is also a dispute over the interpretation of the withdrawal agreement, which redéfines what is EU Law, including international agreements. While the European Commission and Germany interprets it as including treaties that were signed but not into force, others say it incluses only treaties not into force, like the UPC. How can you respect laws which are not into force?