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Article from Issue 89/2008
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I have always been fascinated with the dreamlike interface of the absurd with the mundane, which I will call the Lewis Carroll zone. Perhaps that is why I am drawn to the overcommented but under-understood topic of software patents – in Alice’s Wonderland if ever there was one.

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