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For some reason this article made me make a mental connection between the looters in Atlas Shrugged and patent trolls. Both use government licenses to extort mo
by lucraft 17y ago
For some reason this article made me make a mental connection between the looters in Atlas Shrugged and patent trolls. Both use government licenses to extort money from productive organizations.
The absurdity of some software patents, which are analogous to patenting a new legal argument or a particular sentence structure no one has used before, means I have to live outside of the law in order to do what I love: writing software.
- ZeroGravitas 17y agoOf course these "productive organizations" often also have portfolios of patents that they use to prevent small businesses entering their market. And they often spin-off separate companies to act as patent trolls. The whole thing is rotten but to many people profit from it for it to change any time soon.