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| Authored by: Wol on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 04:36 AM EDT |
Why will it take a change in the law to get rid of software patents? Software
patents are already illegal, so what difference will changing the law make?
As soon as you can get a case in front of the Supremes, that recognises that
numbers are maths, and that all a program is is a big number, then software
patents will evaporate. No change in the law needed.
Cheers,
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 06:04 AM EDT |
I agree broadly with your "5 year" point, but my personal solution has
always been to allow software patents but make them lapse 5 years from filing.
Full stop. This gives them a couple of years RnD to get to market , and a few
years monopoly and at the pace of today's state of the art that should be
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 12 2012 @ 10:05 PM EDT |
People here are ruling out the possibility of getting legislation passed to fix
the problem. To me that means the US cannot be called a democracy.
Yes you have elections. So did the Soviet union. What distinguishes a democracy
is the capacity of the people to effect change. And what you are all telling me
is that the people in the US have ZERO capacity to effect change.
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