Tech giants edgy over Web services patent sale

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I hope the above situation will finally start to get the attention ...

... of large companies. The following quotes from the article are very important, I believe.

"There's a concern that these patents could be used aggressively by a buyer to shake down the whole Web services industry," said Jason Schultz,
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Alarm is growing within the high-tech industry over what some say is a trend toward speculative patent acquisitions.
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"It's like buying up nuclear material so it doesn't fall into the wrong hands," Shultz said. "It may be a new way to think about dangerous patents," he continued. "We may see it replicated, especially in bankruptcy cases."

Software patents are just too dangerous! The history of the software industry, which relied very little on patents, prove that copyrights and other property protection mechanisms are adequate for safeguarding software.

Posted by: P. Douglas   Posted on: 11/24/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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