Micro-crud is continuing its ongoing effort to bring all progress in computer software to a grinding halt by it's ridiculous patent farming scheme...
First read this on Cnet: Microsoft gets 10,000th patent
Then read this to discover just how horrible the first one really is. Seen and Unseen Costs of Patents by Jeffery Tucker.
And if you are really ambitious and have lots of free time read Against Intellectual Monopoly.
Patents and copyrights are both evil. No matter what the FBI warning says at the start of your DVD (my granddaughter chants "Blah! blah! blah!" whenever it flashes onto the screen) copying it is not a crime in any real sense. No more than smoking unapproved herbs is anyway.
First read this on Cnet: Microsoft gets 10,000th patent
Then read this to discover just how horrible the first one really is. Seen and Unseen Costs of Patents by Jeffery Tucker.
And if you are really ambitious and have lots of free time read Against Intellectual Monopoly.
Patents and copyrights are both evil. No matter what the FBI warning says at the start of your DVD (my granddaughter chants "Blah! blah! blah!" whenever it flashes onto the screen) copying it is not a crime in any real sense. No more than smoking unapproved herbs is anyway.
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