On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Harisfazillah Jamel <[email protected]> wrote: > Team > > Found this patent from Google Patent search > > Its mean, if I can simply the process of any process while using OSS > products, I can patent it? > > Wow, we will stuck the inovation. I do a lot of automation and simply > the jobs during my years with OSS. Should have patent it. > > http://www.google.com.my/patents?id=2OeVAAAAEBAJ&zoom=4&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false > > What say you?
I didn't read the entire patent, but I doubt I would understand it even if I did. Patent law is completely broken. Until there's a change, I don't consider any patent valid. I didn't read this Google patent thoroughly, but I probably wouldn't understand all of the details... I'm no lawyer. I know how to migrate from Windows to Linux and I could probably automate the process. The steps required are obvious and would be defined by the process. I've never formalized or written down this process, but I'll bet that it would be similar enough to Google's process that I would be violating their patent. I even wrote about this on my blog: http://www.ghodmode.com/blog/2011/08/problems-with-patent-and-copyright-law/ ... after listening to this podcast episode: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack Even if you don't read my blog entry, I highly recommend listening to the podcast episode if you're interested in this topic. -- Ghodmode http://www.ghodmode.com/blog -- To unsubscribe from and detail about this group http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information OSDC.my Discussion Group In Facebook http://www.facebook.com/groups/osdcmalaysia/ Malaysia Open Source Conference 2012 MOSC2012 http://portal.mosc.my/
