[Discuss] The America Invents Act

[Hsuanyeh Chang]

Thanks Derek for this great video.  I took the time to listen to the whole clip.  With all my respect to RMS, I have to say he did not make a good case on "why all software patents are invalid."  Owners of software patents can be a threat to open source developers.  However, there's no law prohibiting open source developers to seek patent protection.  If someone could successfully persuade the congress to eliminate all software patents, great!  Should that happen (if ever will happen), not only open source, but all software developers will get away from the risk of software patents suits.  Nontheless, before it becomes reality, everyone still have to live with the current system...

HYC on the go

在 Sep 27, 2011 7:47 PM 時，Derek Martin <invalid at pizzashack.org> 寫到：

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 02:58:36PM -0700, Hsuan-Yeh Chang wrote:
2.  Have you tried to file and prosecute a software patent
application with the Patent Office?  You would then know how
difficult it is to pass mustard with those Examiners to get a
software patent allowed.  I support strongly the open source
community.  However, it doesn't necessarily mean that all software
patents should be invalid. 

No it doesn't; there are much, much better arguments why all software
patents should be invalid.  If you have 96 minutes to spend, rms has
given a very good talk on that very topic:

 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=669200964006594520

If you don't have the patience for the whole 96 minutes, the crux of
the issue is discussed from 0:58:00 to about 1:14:00.

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