January 2010
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Software Patents Need To Go
pukomuko:
continuations:
My partner Brad put up a great post on the USV blog yesterday, arguing for an independent invention defense against software patents. A while back, I had proposed an alternative, a change in how litigation works. In that post, I wrote that:
Some folks have suggested doing away with software patents altogether as a way of addressing this problem. That strikes me as...
“The delete key is your friend. Sometimes the best thing that can happen to a...”
– An ultimately unsuccessful interview « DadHacker
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