Home Messages Index
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index

Re: [News] Eulogy for Software Patents Sung in Web Sites

  • Subject: Re: [News] Eulogy for Software Patents Sung in Web Sites
  • From: Homer <usenet@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 01:03:29 +0000
  • Bytes: 2169
  • Cancel-lock: sha1:FhGbr5hOGpPsTQkVm3ZusDXeusU=
  • In-reply-to: <2072760.RqdkpP6tCR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Openpgp: id=BF436EC9; url=http://slated.org/files/GPG-KEY-SLATED.asc
  • Organization: Slated.org
  • References: <2072760.RqdkpP6tCR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080723 Fedora/2.0.0.16-1.fc8 Thunderbird/2.0.0.16 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666
  • Xref: ellandroad.demon.co.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:702829
Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:

> Software and business method patents take a hit

[quote]
"Affording patent protection to business methods lacks constitutional
and statutory support, serves to hinder rather than promote innovation
and usurps that which rightfully belongs in the public domain"
   ~ Justice Mayer
[/quote]

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20081030150903555

http://media.slated.org/albums/content/audio/Handel_-_messiah_-_44_hallelujah.ogg

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

.----
| "At the time, I thought C was the most elegant language and Java
|  the most practical one. That point of view lasted for maybe two
|  weeks after initial exposure to Lisp."   ~ Constantine Vetoshev
`----

Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) on sky, running kernel 2.6.25.11-60.fc8
 01:03:08 up  8:45,  3 users,  load average: 0.07, 0.11, 0.09

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index