Prior art won't solve the software patent problem
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| The Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) has a project to educate the US
| Patent Office about ideas already known ("prior art") so as to prevent
| issuance of "poor quality" software patents which would cover those
| known ideas. It works by annotating free software packages in free
| software repositories so that ideas in them can be found more easily...
| Such a project cannot really protect programmers from software
| patents,because it focuses only on absurd software patents -- those
| that could be legally denied or invalidated based on prior art. However,
| the greatest danger comes from patents that are not absurd, those for
| which we have no prior art.
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