[Trisquel-users] Re : What are these patents that MS owns in Linux? More and more people are paying.

[magicbanana]

I do not think "[digital media] demand a completely new framework for how  
it's governed". The copyright law is appropriate. It would however need some  
fixes such as making it expire quicker (e.g., 10 years after the first  
publication instead of the current 70 years after the death of all main  
authors). An improvement that would specific to software would be requiring  
the publication of the source code once the work become public domain.

As for patents, they indeed to not make any sense in the software world. One  
of the best references to realize it is this short movie.