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> I'll read those claims a little later this evening. I'll save everyone the trouble and tell you without reading them: they're bullshit and so are most softwa
by akersten 5y ago
> I'll read those claims a little later this evening.
I'll save everyone the trouble and tell you without reading them: they're bullshit and so are most software/computer patents. We really need to come together as an industry and fight this crap. Huge props to SparkFun for taking on these bottom feeders.
- AlbertCory 5y agoThe paper in [1], which I wrote in 2014, was rejected (in a slightly different version) by CACM. The referee was a Microsoft researcher, who knew nothing about patents and relied on some "expert" who told him "the patent law has changed." This was completely bogus because the law on obviousness hadn't changed at all. So the big companies, e.g. IBM and Microsoft, are not on our side at all. Neither are ACM and IEEE. I've been on this issue for a long, long time, and it really WILL take a bottom-up revolution. We will get no support whatsoever from the people who should be leading. [1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2399580 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2399580