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I really hope what he is doing is deliberately launching a ridiculous large scale patent suit designed to fail on a massive scale that will undermine all future
by dansingerman 16y ago
I really hope what he is doing is deliberately launching a ridiculous large scale patent suit designed to fail on a massive scale that will undermine all future software patent suits, and therefore the whole software patent system.
If he is he's a hero.
If not he's a dick.
- ez77 16y agoI had a similar reaction. The good news is that, regardless of his true intentions, enough high-profile ridiculous suits like this will be the most powerful catalyst for severe reform.
- jacquesm 16y ago> enough high-profile ridiculous suits like this will be the most powerful catalyst for severe reform. The problem here is that as long as these suits are lost there is plenty of force behind those that say that 'the system works', so only if Paul Allen would actually win this suit would there be an incentive for such reform. There is no real penalty to bringing a suit like this (other than making a bunch of lawyers richer, but when you need 9 zeros before the comma to express your wealth that's no big deal).