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According to Hartmut Pilch, who is one of the leaders in the European struggle against software patents, the main impetus comes from the UK Patent office. The UK Patent Office is simply biased in favor of software patents. It had a public consultation and most of the responses were opposed to software patents. They then wrote a report saying that people seem to be content with them, completely disregarding the answers. You see, the free software community said please send the answers to them and please send your answers to us too and we'll publish them. So they published these answers which were generally opposed. You'd have never guessed that from the report that the UK Patent Office published.