Comments on: Microsoft is Again Paying the Huge Price for Wanting Anti-Free Software Laws http://techrights.org/2009/05/22/microsoft-is-stung-by-software-patents/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: pcolon http://techrights.org/2009/05/22/microsoft-is-stung-by-software-patents/comment-page-1/#comment-63801 pcolon Fri, 22 May 2009 18:08:12 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=11204#comment-63801 That is the shame where the worst of (negative residue), what's supposed to protect is no where in the horizon, is being brought to the EU. Maybe if EPO looks at the results of USPTO and its short term greed, is not credible to a sound stable economy. If you handcuff your developers a "not innovated here (locally)" will in effect have you lose what would've been accredited to you to someone else and what would've been your income go elsewhere. We're at an era where the bureaucrats of the 90s' can't keep up with the speed of the Internet yet that bureaucracy is the ball and chain of innovation amongst other things; freedom of expression, collaboration, sharing of ideas. That is the shame where the worst of (negative residue), what’s supposed to protect is no where in the horizon, is being brought to the EU. Maybe if EPO looks at the results of USPTO and its short term greed, is not credible to a sound stable economy.

If you handcuff your developers a “not innovated here (locally)” will in effect have you lose what would’ve been accredited to you to someone else and what would’ve been your income go elsewhere.

We’re at an era where the bureaucrats of the 90s’ can’t keep up with the speed of the Internet yet that bureaucracy is the ball and chain of innovation amongst other things; freedom of expression, collaboration, sharing of ideas.

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2009/05/22/microsoft-is-stung-by-software-patents/comment-page-1/#comment-63798 Roy Schestowitz Fri, 22 May 2009 17:16:22 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=11204#comment-63798 There's <a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20090520/0151534942.shtml" rel="nofollow">this new report about USPTO</a>. It was rendered dead by endless greed and EPO is heading in the same direction. There’s this new report about USPTO. It was rendered dead by endless greed and EPO is heading in the same direction.

]]> By: pcolon http://techrights.org/2009/05/22/microsoft-is-stung-by-software-patents/comment-page-1/#comment-63796 pcolon Fri, 22 May 2009 16:24:05 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=11204#comment-63796 "U.S. Patent 7,536,726"; This ain't the bottom of the barrel yet. The amount of insipidity is a crucial clue into what's happening generally in the good ole US of A. It's not 'MS bashing' because MS is just a microcosm of corporate behaviour in general. Patenting an idea (Gee, I thought about it first in 199x) without implementation but I can put its description down on paper. This goes beyond being ludicrous, that is, even if you ignore prior art. It just shows you how broken the USPTO is. As kids when we had an 'idea' we used to call it 'Fantasy' or 'Role Playing' (Hollywood's strengths). If you can't innovate you put up obstacles against the people that could. “U.S. Patent 7,536,726″; This ain’t the bottom of the barrel yet. The amount of insipidity is a crucial clue into what’s happening generally in the good ole US of A. It’s not ‘MS bashing’ because MS is just a microcosm of corporate behaviour in general.

Patenting an idea (Gee, I thought about it first in 199x) without implementation but I can put its description down on paper. This goes beyond being ludicrous, that is, even if you ignore prior art. It just shows you how broken the USPTO is. As kids when we had an ‘idea’ we used to call it ‘Fantasy’ or ‘Role Playing’ (Hollywood’s strengths). If you can’t innovate you put up obstacles against the people that could.

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