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You will often get other kinds of &mdash; you may get evasive answers if you ask &ldquo;Do you support or oppose software idea patents?&rdquo; The people who wrote the directives claim that it does not authorize software idea patents, they say that this is because the directive says, that anything to be patented must have a technical character. But, somebody in the European Commission involved in this, admitted that, that terms means exactly what they want it to mean, humpty-dumpty style, so, in fact, it is no limitation on anything. So if a candidate says: I support the commissions draft because it won't allow software idea patents you can point this out. And press the question: &ldquo;Will you vote for the parliaments previous amendments?&rdquo;