Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 31st Oct 2006 21:10 UTC
"The simple question 'what's wrong with software patents?' stirs up controversy and divides the IT industry into two camps like no other. Every group has their own ideology about software patents. Those who don't like them claim that they are anti-competitive, that they are tools used by industry giants to crush free and open software, that they are bad for innovation, that they are monopolies. Those who like them claim that they are simply units of intellectual property, to be traded like any other commodity."
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2006-05-09
There's something wrong with the patent office.
Yeah. They're understaffed, underfunded, and get all the blame for those one-in-a-million minor, esoteric slip-ups.
There's something wrong with the morons who take a couple of extremely rare, isolated incidents and use them to portray patent office employees as incompetent and the patent office as evil.