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Posted in GNU/Linux, Intellectual Monopoly, Law, Microsoft, Patents, UNIX at 7:44 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Accept it or hate it, Microsoft still intends to use software patents for redefining the rules of a game it is losing. Be it welcomed or damned, it is important to fight this battle against ‘contamination’ with software patents, which large companies try to 'inject' into national law worldwide.
=> use software patents for redefining the rules of a game | losing | large companies try to 'inject'
Here we present some new items of interest.
Along the lines of “dumb wisdom”, let’s consider what makes an “intellectual idiocy”. When applied to things like spurious copyright protection:
=> ↺ applied to things like spurious copyright protection
In many ways, the human mind is like a computer … it processes information and stores data. Are the memories we have of music; films and books in violation of copyright, because they are stored like computer files in our minds? Should we be legally prohibited from discussing this “content”, for fear of being accused of illegally “distributing” copyrighted material?
The above is a good and warmly recommended post that emerged from a recent discussion. How about this new bit about software patents? [via Digital Majority]
=> ↺ this new bit about software patents
Brad Feld, a venture capitalist, described software patents as an “evil scourge on our planet” that stifle innovation and believes technology has no value by the time it is patented. Feld stated software patents should be abolished and the problems of software patents would be solved with large companies creating patent software commons of cross licensing the patents.
Microsoft loves software patents and its ridiculous portfolio proves this. But it has this annoying obsession of patenting things that Linux/UNIX ‘own’ but never had patented. How about Microsoft's sudo patent? Or this new post from Glyn Moody about Microsoft ‘owning’ system modularity?
=> loves software patents | ridiculous portfolio | Microsoft's sudo patent | ↺ new post from Glyn Moody
One word that has cropped up time and again on this blog is “modularity”. It’s one of the prime characteristics of the open source way – and one of its greatest strengths. Now wonder, then, that Microsoft has finalled cottoned on – helped, no doubt, by the abject failure of its Vista monster
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Needless to say, though, even in making this sensible move, Microsoft manages to add a touch of absurdity: Unsurprisingly, Microsoft already has a patent on a “modular operating system” concept.
A patent on modularity? Give me a break….
The patent/application itself a bit old. There are many more examples. For further reading about the concept and the patent consider:
Microsoft to Release Modular Operating SystemsRed Hat release renews OS debateThe Benefits of Modular Programming
Remember patent TrollTracker?
Well, our Web site now contains many broken (outgoing) links since the man’s blog was bullied out of existence. And now it’s BusinessWeek’s turn to tell the story.
=> ↺ BusinessWeek’s turn to tell the story
Troll Tracker gained repute as a forum for information, not invective. But its more volatile content would eventually combine to blow up the blog and land its creator and Cisco in legal hot water. A reader comment in December contained a death threat against Chicago attorney Raymond Niro Sr., who has long represented trolls. Two Texas attorneys were enraged by Troll Tracker reports suggesting that the lawyers may have had dates altered on a court document—a felony. By the end of last year, Niro had put up a $15,000 bounty to unmask the anonymous blogger, and Internet sleuths had tried to track him.
How truly unacceptable. A known troll [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] resorts to bullying [1, 2, 3].
=> 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 3
Rick cited us in the past and it’s awfully sad to see patent trolls not only abusing the system, but abusing people and their careers/employers as well. How can Ray Niro even stare at the mirror under his bridge? █
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