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A cheneyian view of software patents
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| Call me pessimistic if you wish: Bad habits take a long time to die.
| Sometimes, they don’t even disappear at all. They keep on surviving. This
| time, it seems that Microsoft has decided to roam around and privateer
| against anything that looks even remotely like a company that could use
| patents on software. This is how Microsoft announced an agreement
| on “Intellectual Property” with Brother, focused on printing technology. Now,
| as Matt Asay has rightfully pointed out, Microsoft does not manufacture nor
| design printers, but the hell with it! Printers are like the rest, a whole
| bunch of patentable paraphenalia anyone with capital should invest into.
| Note: The point is not to invest in printers themselves, it is to patent
| everything you can imagine is patentable.
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http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/02/10/a-cheneyian-view-of-software-patents/
Peer-to-Patent and Article One Drag the Reclusive Patent Onto the Thoroughfare
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| Patenting used to be a lonely pursuit. Patent applicants would work in
| isolation, secrecy being their only protection before the patent application
| was filed. The patent would be granted or rejected in a pas de deux involving
| just applicant and examiner. Once a patent was granted, licensing battles
| were also fought mano a mano while other potential infringers watched
| anxiously from the sidelines.
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http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/01/peer-to-patent-and-article-one.html
Related:
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
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| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
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