On 20 May 2010 15:49, silky <[email protected]> wrote: > Agreed that Patent law is "not ideal". But I would expect it's not so > trivial to replace or remove, and you don't hear about the good > things, so your feelings towards it are almost certainly biased.
I think there is an argument that can be made that there is a very big difference between a real invention and say, getting a patent for using XOR to overlay a cursor on a GUI (years and years after the industry has been using it as standard) then going on to take everyone with a pulse to court. I'm surprised more of these don't get over-turned trivially by showing prior art. -- David Connors ([email protected]) Software Engineer Codify Pty Ltd - www.codify.com Phone: +61 (7) 3210 6268 | Facsimile: +61 (7) 3210 6269 | Mobile: +61 417 189 363 V-Card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors Address Info: https://www.codify.com/contact
