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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Patents vs. Innovation

Read "Why Software Patents are Evil" by Simon Phipps in InfoWorld.
It's an excellent summary of the problems caused by patents applied to software.

There's a great TED Talk by Johanna Blakley on "Lessons Learned from Fashion's Free Culture" which reinforces the essential point.

Software patents don't help anyone.  The open source movement is evidence that folks working outside the constraints of patent lawyers are more innovative and produce high-quality software.  The Internet is built on non-proprietary technology (TCP/IP and related protocols), GNU/Linux, Apache and similar software componentry.  How have patents helped?
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  1. Robert LucenteApril 29, 2012 at 2:48 PM

    Check out the article

    The Coming Software Patent Apocalypse
    July 27, 2007 by Jeff Atwood

    http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/07/the-coming-software-patent-apocalypse.html

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