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Where's the action?Where's the action?Posted Jul 19, 2009 2:36 UTC (Sun) by vblum (guest, #1151)In reply to: Where's the action? by drag Parent article: Linux Vendor Settles With Microsoft (InformationWeek)
umm ... I would also suggest that that previous comment may not have been the best you ever wrote (and you do write good comments, very often, I know). At the very least, most history books (and I read some _before_ the present crisis) suggests that _no action_ was exactly what deepened the great depression to what it was. (And it may be worth pondering that very carefully - the present crisis was handled differently _exactly_ because of the lessons from 1929-1933.)
But, I forgot what all this has to do with the original discussion.
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Patent action Posted Jul 19, 2009 20:43 UTC (Sun) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] There is an excellent explanation of this inactivity in the wikipedia. Just wanted to point out that it was the Federal Reserve which didn't act, but it did so following government policy (as explained in the main article).Just to come back to the present topic, I am not sure if the current US administration would see restrictions on the current patent model as pro-business (and therefore helping businesses to navigate the crisis) or against (making companies lose one source of income). Maybe they need some additional help from their constituencies to see that patents are harmful to the software industry as a whole. I know that the Spanish government doesn't have a flying clue about the patent issue, and for once have more faith on European authorities to do the right thing here and continue disallowing software patents.
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