Measuring the contamination

Measuring the contamination

Posted Mar 2, 2009 12:45 UTC (Mon) by pboddie (subscriber, #50784)
In reply to: 451 Group: Microsoft suing TomTom, not Linux, not open source by tialaramex
Parent article: 451 Group: Microsoft suing TomTom, not Linux, not open source

Indeed, counting the number of patents granted is really only measuring only one thing economically: the amount of money being spent at the patent office and the growth of the patent sector. And that's all that the lobbyists pushing for software patents care about: the health and wealth of the patent bureaucracy in each economic zone of interest.

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