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Monday, September 12, 2005

Software Patent Rant

softwarepatents.html - My opinion of software patents.

Feel free to leave yours in the comments here.

posted by Keith [9/12/2005 05:28:00 AM] - permalink - 4 comments

4 comment(s):

Anonymous wrote:

Keith, you are correct; of course. Software should be copyrighted, FOSS, or copyleft, or whatever, and can be.

Posted [9/18/2005 04:52:00 PM]

Keith wrote:

Good point.

I've read some sites such as nosoftwarepatents.com who want to prevent EU software patents. They make the same argument that copyright should be adequate for software.

Posted [9/18/2005 05:50:00 PM]

Anonymous wrote:

I suggest mredkj hurry up and patent the 1/2-click, where you can order things by only a mousedown or even the keypress. Even better is if mredkj would show some initiative and get the 2,3,4,5,6,7 and 8-click patents. That way mredkj can corner the market. Everyone will have to license from mredkj or Amazon or else go to 9 clicks and that would just be ridiculous.

Posted [9/22/2005 03:28:00 PM]

Keith wrote:

Better yet, why mess with clicks at all. To speed up the transaction, orders will be placed from mouseovers.

Oh man, someone already thought of this idea.

Posted [9/22/2005 09:43:00 PM]