-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 3/6/10 08:59 , Wildam Martin wrote: > > In general patents were invented to somehow protect innovative > people/companies investing years of research to create something new. > I can understand that idea. There are two problems with that: > > 1. people try to trick that (patent things they didn't either start > research on so just asking the patent for an idea etc) > > 2. Patent offices allowing to patent things that are not worth > patenting or either already exist (not necessarily with a patent). > > This is, what makes it useless. Exactly. It's unfortunate that there are mostly extreme positions with respect to this topic. On one side, the absurd easiness in granting patents; on the other, the attempts to counter this bad policy have been only the plea for a complete ban of software patents (I'm referring to a plea that some time ago was made e.g. in the EU, I think lead by the FSF). We should rather ask for a reform of the criterion used to grant them. In the same attitude, while I think that many claimed Apple patents are bullshit, I'd never say that Apple never did anything innovative. The truth is often in the middle.
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