The New Zealand Open Source Society reacted angrily to the [Patents] bill's new wording in a blog post. "With the removal of the explicit software patent exclusion, and the addition of two tiny words, 'as such', Foss has more or less thrown Kiwi software developers under a bus," it said.
The minister might believe he had struck a "clever compromise", but the clarification represented "a legal loophole the size of a bus", it said.
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