3 ms·

I would personally like the see the end of software patents, as I feel they are bad for the country, but I don't see that happening. Perhaps we should consider

I would personally like the see the end of software patents, as I feel they are bad for the country, but I don't see that happening. Perhaps we should consider something else, like allowing software patents to continue, but limiting them to a far shorter duration (in recognition to the speed of software development)? Say four or five years?

SwellJoe 16y ago
The point of this campaign is that the Supreme Court has recently said, "Software patents go too far." This is an opportunity to tell the USPTO that software patents are not sensible, as they are currently being granted. It is not about "ending software patents" per se, but making them harder to obtain...and now is the best possible time to say something about it, because the supreme court has said, "Yeah, this whole software patent thing probably doesn't exactly make sense."