http://www.rants.org/2007/05/01/how-to-tell-that-software-patents-are-a-bad-idea/ Thoughts, musings, and rants by Karl Fogel Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:47:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-bleeding http://www.rants.org/2007/05/01/how-to-tell-that-software-patents-are-a-bad-idea/#comment-14739 rants.org » Blog Archive » What To Do With That Hundred Dollar Bill You Just Found Under The Couch Sat, 08 Mar 2008 05:17:03 +0000 http://www.rants.org/2007/05/01/how-to-tell-that-software-patents-are-a-bad-idea/#comment-14739 [...] knowing it. The fact that your project or one of its corporate users hasn’t been sued by some patent troll may be happy coincidence, or it may be that legal challenges, re-examination requests, and [...] [...] knowing it. The fact that your project or one of its corporate users hasn’t been sued by some patent troll may be happy coincidence, or it may be that legal challenges, re-examination requests, and [...]

]]> http://www.rants.org/2007/05/01/how-to-tell-that-software-patents-are-a-bad-idea/#comment-2633 rants.org » Blog Archive » Answering Augusto... Thu, 12 Jul 2007 04:11:26 +0000 http://www.rants.org/2007/05/01/how-to-tell-that-software-patents-are-a-bad-idea/#comment-2633 [...] differ in some important ways. Regarding software patents, and perhaps other kinds as well, this post and this post offer some methods by which one can tell whether a given patent regime is useful to [...] [...] differ in some important ways. Regarding software patents, and perhaps other kinds as well, this post and this post offer some methods by which one can tell whether a given patent regime is useful to [...]

]]> http://www.rants.org/2007/05/01/how-to-tell-that-software-patents-are-a-bad-idea/#comment-1064 rants.org » Blog Archive » Does Microsoft's Horacio Gutierrez lie, or does he just not know? Wed, 16 May 2007 05:40:59 +0000 http://www.rants.org/2007/05/01/how-to-tell-that-software-patents-are-a-bad-idea/#comment-1064 [...] mean, it’s not like programmers sit around reading patents all day; in fact most programmers go out of their way to avoid looking at patents. Thus, software patent infringement are almost always accidental. At the very least, a tally of 235 [...] [...] mean, it’s not like programmers sit around reading patents all day; in fact most programmers go out of their way to avoid looking at patents. Thus, software patent infringement are almost always accidental. At the very least, a tally of 235 [...]

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