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____/ Phil Da Lick! on Monday 30 June 2008 13:05 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Tech giants form group to buy patents
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>> | To join the group, each company will pay about $250,000 put about $5
>> | million into escrow for future patent purchases, the newspaper reported,
>> | citing people familiar with the matter
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>> | [...]
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>> | A sweeping patent law rewrite backed by seemingly every prominent hardware
>> | and software maker was part of that effort, but it stalled in the Senate
>> | last month. The so-called Patent Reform Act of 2007 would have curbed the
>> | ability of patent holders to obtain what the companies consider
>> | disproportionate damage awards, spurring the rise of so-called patent
>> | trolls who exist only to extort large payments out of deep-pocketed
>> | companies. Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Adobe Systems, Apple, Intel,
>> | Symantec, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, eBay, Oracle, and Red Hat were among the
>> | high-profile signatories that signed on in support of passage of the bill.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9980343-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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> Which once again highlights the absolute fuckwittery of software
> patents. The big boys are protected against each other, but the little
> guy is fucked. So what if he manages to get himself a patent or two
> (ignoring for the moment the time it takes to get the application
> through) the big boys can swat him like a fly with their encyclopedias
> of IP fuckwittery.
>
> When you consider the nature of computer science whereby sweeping
> changes come very quickly from small ideas (eg web etc) this is absolute
> madness.
Microsoft too has admitted this in court. There needs to be a device, they
said.
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