http://www.patentbaristas.com/archives/2008/02/05/bush-administration-calls-for-tech-neutral-patent-reform/#comment-40379
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| This patent reform is about software companies who tries to get rid of the
| disadvantages of software patents, while keeping the advantages.
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| This is not gonna work.
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| The solution is to scrap software patents entirely.
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| This is not going to solve anything for small software companies that cannot
| even afford to go to court.
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Patent Exhaustion
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| Okay, this post is a bit inside baseball. But some lawyers and law students
| may at least find this of interest. In an upcoming case, Quanta v. LG
| Electronics, the Supreme Court may refine the "patent exhaustion" doctrine to
| make it more difficult for patentees to extract royalties from multiple
| parties for the same device.
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http://blog.mises.org/archives/007729.asp
In case you don't see what patents have to do with Linux, watch the quote below
(from yesterday). Political corruption is being used to legalise software
patents.
Yesterday:
Torvalds worries about patents and slow storage
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| "One thing that has been worrisome over the last few years are … stupid
| external issues -- especially patents and stuff like that. Those are the
| things that worry technical people. Probably because they feel like they --
| including me -- can't necessarily do a lot about them.
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| "When you don't feel in control you start worrying," said Torvalds.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Torvalds-worries-about-patents-and-slow-storage/0,130061733,339285687,00.htm
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