Almost everyone in the software industry agrees that innovation is rapid and often simultaneous in the field of software. Copyrights help defend the GPL or prevent copying where software is proprietary. Markus Persson is saying that "[s]oftware patents are plain evil. Innovation within software is basically free, and it's growing incredibly rapid. Patents only slow it down."
"We must fight back against what is criminal and anti-competitive behaviour, portrayed in corruptible press as "business as usual"."The Seattle Times, funded in part by Bill Gates (other members of the Gates family occupy a lot of Seattle and get coverage from their corporate press) is whitewashing the name/identity of a patent terrorist who hangs out with Gates. Yes, Janet I. Tu, who calls herself a technology reporter, helps promote Microsoft's chief racketeer, boasting his "trove". Best propaganda money can buy. The FFII's president bemoans "More anti-Google, anti-Samsung, anti-Android and pro software patents spin doctoring from Microsoft Florian," who is funded by Microsoft (see our Florian Müller page).
Recently we learned that "New Zealand Draft Patent Law Rewritten After Microsoft Meeting" (to allow software patents).
The bottom line is, Microsoft continues to distort reality so that it favours software patents. We must fight back against what is criminal and anti-competitive behaviour, portrayed in corruptible press as "business as usual". ⬆