move along

Posted Aug 3, 2003 11:40 UTC (Sun) by Peter (guest, #1127) [Link]

What makes you so sure that they aren't looking for innovations to invent or maybe some good patentable algorithms?

Let 'em look. Linux systems have nothing to hide. As for "inventing" innovations, it's not like anyone other than the trade rag journalists actually believes they invent anything anymore.

And as for new patents, it's kind of hard to enforce a patent against an implementation older than your file date. (And thanks to the open development process, this is pretty easy to document.) So - let 'em file the patent - it won't be enforceable (read: relevent) anyway.

To be honest it's a bit funny hearing open source proponents get all hot and bothered about a proprietary software company potentially chasing their taillights. (: