Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Big patent law reform on the way?
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| It?s the case of In re Bilski, due to be heard soon by a full panel of the
>| Federal Circuit.
>|
>| Crouch writes that the court is asking some basic questions, including
>| whether the State Street decision, which allowed business methods patents,
>| should be overturned. That case is also used to justify software patents.
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| If patents on business methods and software are invalidated as a class, the
>| SCO case disappears and U.S. patent law starts to look a lot more like
>| European law, in which copyright is software?s primary protection.
> `----
>
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2035
The decision to permit business methods patents was a grave error, I can
only imagine that it had not been thought-through fully.
>
> It has become ridiculous.
>
> How hard is it to violate the GPL?
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| In a world where smaller-and-smaller code fragments are patented, licensed or
>| copyrighted, it ?s getting harder-and-harder to write anything which doesn?t
>| infringe on someone?s rights, somewhere.
> `----
>
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2031
>
> 'Innovation' = when nobody can write code. It's a luxury of the wealthy few.
> Feudal systems again...
>
Patent = government certified monopoly.
>
> Related:
>
> When Patents Threaten Science
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Patents should not be used to protect laws of nature, products of
>| nature, or mathematical formulas.
> `----
>
> http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/314/5804/1395
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