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No company in their right mind should sign this. This throws the baby out with the bathwater. There are actually legitimate uses for patents and if you're wor
by kwamenum86 15y ago
No company in their right mind should sign this. This throws the baby out with the bathwater. There are actually legitimate uses for patents and if you're working on something non-trivial your company might want to (and might even be obligated to in order to do right by shareholders) use the patent offensively.
- a-priori 15y agoThey still can use it offensively. They just have to get the inventor's permission first.
- kwamenum86 15y agoThanks for the clarification
- luriel 15y ago> There are actually legitimate uses for patents Whatever patents in general have any legitimate uses is at best arguable (see http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/against.htm http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/against.h... ), but that software patents are a complete and utter disaster that doesn't benefit anyone other than trolls and lawyers has become quite clear by now.