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There was an interesting radio program on IT patents today ("When Patents Attack"):
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack
If nothing else, one has to be amazed that even in the year 2000 there was a patent filed for toast (patent number 6080436, "Bread Refreshing Method."). By analogy, things that everyone involved in IT does, and makes up a part of the most ordinary activities (such as starting a website) involved technologies that somebody, somewhere, owns a patent for - examples mentioned in the program were providing software patches over the internet, and backing up files remotely.
A short write up (if you don't have time to listen):
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/07/22/138576167/when-patents-attack
My reaction to it all:
{sigh}
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http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack
If nothing else, one has to be amazed that even in the year 2000 there was a patent filed for toast (patent number 6080436, "Bread Refreshing Method."). By analogy, things that everyone involved in IT does, and makes up a part of the most ordinary activities (such as starting a website) involved technologies that somebody, somewhere, owns a patent for - examples mentioned in the program were providing software patches over the internet, and backing up files remotely.
A short write up (if you don't have time to listen):
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/07/22/138576167/when-patents-attack
My reaction to it all:
{sigh}
ξ