Winamp Brainchild: “You Have People Patenting Things that Are Essentially Math”
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2010-07-21 08:13:33 UTC
- Modified: 2010-07-21 08:13:33 UTC
Summary: "I could write a 100,000 lines of code and for all I know, 50,000 of them infringe on various things," argues Justin Frankel
THE LEGENDARY developer
Justin Frankel spoke about software patents some days ago and here is
a portion of what he said:
Frankel also talked about software patents, asserting that they were essentially just tools for people seeking money in lawsuits. He says the biggest problem is that "you have people patenting things that are essentially math, which is what patents are not supposed to be even about at all. ... They are a big problem largely because you can infringe on them without knowing that you do and as a small company you have like very little—you don’t have resources to go and research whether or not you do. I could write a 100,000 lines of code and for all I know, 50,000 of them infringe on various things. And I wouldn’t know that."
Shazam ought to get this memo [
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