Bradley Holt <[email protected]> writes: > I was wondering how soon after that email went out we'd see a thread > about it here on the VAGUE mailing list. It took less than 20 minutes > :-) > > I'm strongly opposed to software patents (for reasons which I'm sure > are obvious to everyone here) and am considering going to the meeting > to hear what he has to say.
Indeed, I'm trying to think of questions along the lines of how best to disallow the patentability of ideas, maybe through extended public notice, such that future prior art searches would have a higher chance of finding submissions non-novel and/or obvious. Of course, given how obvious and non-novel existing software patent grants are, maybe it wouldn't matter if there was even more evidence that's not being looked at. But that itself is another facet I'd love to hear about from someone in the space. -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b}
