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

["Phil Da Lick!" <phil_the_lick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> US court throws out most software patents - Microsoft has a problem
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Much of the patent portfolio of some of the world's biggest software 
> | companies has become worthless overnight, thanks to a ruling yesterday by the 
> | US patent court.  
> `----
> http://www.itexaminer.com/us-court-throws-out-most-software-patents.aspx

"With the world's economy sliding downhill at an increasing pace each 
day, this decision could cost US companies billions of dollars"
They don't mention that the value they're talking about is about as 
tangible as the value in the mad credit lending that has been going on 
for the last 10 years. It's all one and the same - big business overly 
inflating essentially nothing to make obscene profit at the expense of 
everyone else. You'd have thought the dotcom lesson would have been 
learned but apparently not. If the insanity of swpatents goes away maybe 
tech companies will have a *real* value attached to them?