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Top judge: ditching software patents a "bad solution" | 91 comments | Create New Account
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Nope, not corrupt, ignorant... see example of Oracle v Google judge struggling to understand IT.
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 14 2012 @ 12:53 PM EDT
Nope, not corrupt, ignorant... see example of Oracle v Google judge struggling
to understand IT.

I know a bunch of lawyers, and they really are not trained in tech. We all know
that after computing 101, that predated some of the judges days in college, that
it takes sometimes years to grasp what is really going on. G

roklaw really is a help as it is educating those lawyers, Senators (most who are
lawyers), judges, etc... that hang around here and pick up on the wonderful
attempts by those who work in tech to claify what is going really going on
inside of a computer.

Some of these judges are in awe of a computer, much as the first tribespeople
when the mastery of fire was first invented. The power to make fire by rubbing
sticks together, gave power to the witch doctor, or whatever that person was
called, they would disappear into their hut, or cave, with two sticks, and come
out with fire. It was magic to the ignorant, much in the same way that
computers are magic to these judges.

They see them as being so amazing, that certainly such magic, must be worthy of
thousands of softare patents.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Top judge: ditching software patents a "bad solution"
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 14 2012 @ 01:11 PM EDT
It was pointed out by someone at Ars Technica that the judge was surrounded by
patent lawyers at his job.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

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