As you know, I have plenty to say about Patents. Software Patents in particular bother me, and this week Apple was issued a patent that scares me for an almost-new reason.
I’ve weighed in with my opinion on patents — particularly software patents — a few times. For the most part, I think software patents are a very bad idea, because they describe process, and process can’t be patented.
Wouldn’t it be great if software was free? Heck, wouldn’t it be great if everything was free?
And a better question: am I talking about “free of charge”, or walking a “Free to Be You and Me” metaphor? Dries Buytaert, the founder of…
Who Wants a Patent? Because they seem to be getting handed out for just about anything.
I’ve long believed that in general software patents are a very bad idea. This week the United States Patents and Trademarks…
