Tag: patents
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"The patent system is not just broken, it is poisonous."
Good article from ZDnet: Bill Gates [once said] that software patents had the potential to put the industry at “a complete standstill” and with good reason. If the sort of protection Microsoft now claims for itself had been available to CP/M then, Microsoft would never have created its monopoly, nor amassed a fraction of its…
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Are patents stifling innovation in mobile devices?
In 2007, I wrote why software patents are not a good idea. It’s easy to find examples of patent abuse but its not often to find a company that uses patents that stifle a whole industry. Such may be the case with the Apple iPhone. I purchased an iPhone shortly after it came out, because…