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Apple patents automatic software updates

Apple patents automatic software updates

Posted Mar 25, 2006 5:02 UTC (Sat) by cwwitt (guest, #36726)
Parent article: Apple patents automatic software updates

Is it just me? I burn whenever I hear about the patent office approving some common sense idea as a patent. Am I the idiot? The patent system needs radical reformation. I am only 34 years old and I can remember when a patent was something respectable, something to be proud of. Now the word seems dirty and brings to mind corruption and not much else. I seriously seethe inside when I hear about this garbage going on.


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Apple patents automatic software updates

Posted Mar 25, 2006 16:17 UTC (Sat) by jhardin@impsec.org (guest, #15045) [Link]

Oh gawd yes.

Patenting existing life forms and biochemical processes is another big area of abuse. Patents are supposed to be for *original* *inventions*!

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