We preserve real computing until the days of GUIs are over. Someday information systems designed by marketing, clerks and lawyers will vanish. That will be the day when people will recognize that this software was sold just to solve problems noone would have without it and to make a lot of other problems to need lawyers for. On that day we will restart the information technology again doing what computers where thought to do in the good old days: efficient data processing.
The experiment is over. Let's free the people now! Software patents are a way to do this. What the EU-Commission does is quite intelligent. They destroy the european software industry but take care that the US suffers more by giving their software industry protected markets. That will free european young creative personal ressources now bound in that worthless industry and, on the other side, will bind more US-people to it.
After the graphic user interface came creeping out of the dark of software evolution that evolution was up a blind alley barking up almost every wrong tree. Linux proves this. Software fumbled together by a bunch of geeks threatens the whole software industry? What a joke! What good is that industry? Its like you and me feeling so uncomfortable in our cars that we two start to build a better one - and succeed!
In the name of audio-visual hygiene we want this law in europe! now! The EU-Commission wants it to! Life can be great!