The rights to the book have since been sold to another publisher, whom Powell has not contacted. He no longer receves royalties. I consider it to be a misguided and potentially dangerous publication which should be taken out of print. I haven't seen any press coverage of it. Thanks to Rogers Cadenhead for suggesting this story.
Board votes to allow software patents in Europe .
According to this Wall Street Journal article , an administrative board for the European Patents Office has voted 10-9 to allow software patents in Europe. A final decision is due in November when all the countries represented by the Office meet in conference. To date Europe has been spared this particular form of runaway intellectual-property protection, which has been rampant in the US and Japan for at least the previous decade. The proponents of EU software patents included most of the small countries such as Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Cyprus. A German justice minister said, We would have problems with the U.S. tendency to patent everything that can be patented.