On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 02:58:36PM -0700, Hsuan-Yeh Chang wrote: > 2. Have you tried to file and prosecute a software patent > application with the Patent Office? You would then know how > difficult it is to pass mustard with those Examiners to get a > software patent allowed. I support strongly the open source > community. However, it doesn't necessarily mean that all software > patents should be invalid.
No it doesn't; there are much, much better arguments why all software patents should be invalid. If you have 96 minutes to spend, rms has given a very good talk on that very topic: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=669200964006594520 If you don't have the patience for the whole 96 minutes, the crux of the issue is discussed from 0:58:00 to about 1:14:00. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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