Just to be clear, my purpose in attending would be to learn, not to heckle.
But I do strongly believe that software patents are horrible, terrible, bad
ideas that should not be allowed, never mind defended.
R
joe golden <[email protected]> wrote:
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I think we could attend and learn where the new lines are and ask
valuable questions and present another point of view *without* heckling.
We could get beer after too ;-)
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Joe Golden /_\ www.triangul.us /_\ People, Ideas, Connections
(Happily lapsed VTSDA member)
On 10/13/2010 02:47 PM, Rubin Bennett wrote:
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From: Josh Sled [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 2:25 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: vtSDA Lunch and Learn (10/20) * Protecting Software Patents
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.
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I wondered exactly the same thing here; software patents are being
struck down as indefensible in much of the world (the EU in particular),
and our local software developers guild is having a presentation on how
to defend them? Seriously?
If my schedule permits, you can bet I'll be there wearing my flame proof
suit and doing a typically poor job of sitting down and shutting up :)
R
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