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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2005-07-06
"Exactly"
Dont claim that you get it , your comment show otherwise.
THAT technology belong to me. I bought a copy and am entitled a copy of the blueprint so that I can fix it and use it as I wish , as long as I dont try to make a Hardware copy and rename it and sell it as something else.
Its the same thing with software , I am entitled to the source code so that I can use it as I wish and am able to fix it when problem arise.
Thats why the patent is screwy among other things.