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Authored by: BitOBear on Tuesday, May 15 2012 @ 12:29 PM EDT |
The sad part of all this is that Software Patents are too dangerous for
programmers to read to read for fear of enhanced liability.
See, the patents themselves, the few I -have- read, and all those I hear of,
claim the basic tools of my trade as if they are new found art. They do so in
terms so broad that as a person normally skilled in the art the claims are
meaningless and so impossible to avoid.
This double-bind is so insidious that nobody with a brain and an intent to
program for any purpose would dare consult anything "taught" by such
dire text for fear of multi-million dollar liabilities at random future dates.
So the USPTO has created a fundamental trap to make knowledge illegal and to
thereby -retard- the useful arts and sciences in direct contravention of its
constitutional mandate.
So let me be clear, I have not and will not read the actual patent.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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