Comments on: Patents Roundup: OIN Addresses Patent Trolls Issue, Public Patent Foundation Video, and More http://techrights.org/2009/06/29/oin-and-public-patent-foundation/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 03 Jan 2017 02:48:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2009/06/29/oin-and-public-patent-foundation/comment-page-1/#comment-68856 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:37:06 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=14176#comment-68856 Peer2patent, OIN, and RAND pose similar problems.

]]> By: Jose_X http://techrights.org/2009/06/29/oin-and-public-patent-foundation/comment-page-1/#comment-68853 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:59:09 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=14176#comment-68853 Interesting video, but the speaker appeared to leave room for allowing many types of (strong) software patents and royalties for them. He did not state details, but I can see how such details might still leave the public and many many potential inventors being sold quite short. One example that comes to mind is that I don’t remember him questioning the foolishness of giving a patent to one person as if an invention (a) happens all because of one person or even (b) can’t frequently be recreated by others in a time span much shorter than 20 years. However, he did state the Cisco exec and Billg quotes. He also pointed to a great many of the most unfair issues with today’s patents.

I do worry about compromises that will still leave in lots of hurt for much FOSS and much of the public.

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