That's not how patents work

That's not how patents work

Posted May 14, 2007 16:45 UTC (Mon) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: That's not how patents work by khim
Parent article: Microsoft takes on the free world (CNN)

Good point. However, I'm not sure the argument would fly too far before it is shot down... After all, Linux developers (Torvalds, famously) are known for being geniuses, releasing code freely, ideologically being against software patents, supporting copyleft, and being raving communists... erm, this last part is bogus ;)

In short, GNU/Linux developers (kernel+userspace) will be pictured as giving their work away and being against the holy Intellectual Property trinity (copyright, patents and trade marks), even if it is not exactly true. So nobody will be surprised that they do not patent their inventions.

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