Of telescopes, patents and the death of discovery

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Patents are the greatest threat to the software industry

It should be written in our constitution, that no idea should be able to be patented or receive some kind of legal protection - only the implementation of the ideas. Virtually every software developer is guilty of (unavoidably) violating growing numbers of patents, and things will only get worse and worse, until the software industry comes to a screaching halt.

Posted by: P. Douglas   Posted on: 06/04/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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