Side note - you can't patent algorithms, only implementations of
algorithms.
Christian.
On Mar 5, 2010, at 3:05 PM, Casper Bang wrote:
Suing - there's an app for that!
On Mar 5, 8:44 pm, Fabrizio Giudici <fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it>
wrote:
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On 3/5/10 18:00 , OldFatGit wrote:> This blog explains it better
than I can...
http://blogs.zdnet.com/carroll/?p=1925&tag=content;col1
I much agree on that - but the real problem here is the current
interpretation of software patents. I'm not completely against
software patents - for instance, if you invent a new algorithm e.g.
for compressing video streams, I think you should have the right to
patent it (I'm not saying that it would be advisable or a good thing,
on the contrary, I think that FLOSS is better - but that in this case
there is genuine IP that one might want to control exercising his
right to choose). The problem is when laws allow you to patent things
such as a listener (!), as the blog describes, assuming the author
correctly interpreted the thing.
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