On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:03:05 -0400, Ezekiel wrote: > > It protects the inventor from having others steal and profit from the > invention.
Like freetards. > I'm in complete agreement that the patent system is issuing too many > trivial patents. There's a lot of crap patents out there. Google has > patents on blowing air on the back of computer racks and patents on > physically running network patch cables along a 19" rack mount cabinet. But > this doesn't mean that I'm against valid patents. That's how I feel. The system needs a complete overhaul. > I'm not against software patents any more then I'm against any valid and > innovative patent. The problem with software patents is the same as what > exists in just about every other patentable area... just about everything > and anything is being patented. I pretty much feel the same way. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
