On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Julian H. Stacey <j...@berklix.com> wrote: >> This is the reason software patents comprise such a blight on the world >> of software development. > > Yes, agreed, & not just software. > > The european patent office system pressures examiners towards granting > if they can't quickly find prove the application is already known. > > http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/txt/patents/
Sadly, the time they had the likes of Albert Einstein as patent examiners [1] are well over... [1]: https://www.ige.ch/en/about-us/einstein/einstein-at-the-patent-office.html > Cheers, > Julian -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
