Z:gnu-www-ja-danger-of-software-patents--7cfefc-Some have. In India a few yea/en

Some have. In India a few years ago, there was an attempt to change patent law to explicitly allow software patents and it was dropped. A few years ago the US proposed a trade treaty, a free exploitation treaty, with Latin America. And it was blocked by the president of Brazil, who said no to software patents and another nasty thing relating to computers, and that killed the whole treaty. That's apparently the whole thing that the US wanted to impose on the rest of the continent. But these things don't stay dead; there are companies that have full-time staff looking for some way they can subvert some country or other.