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EFF Launches New Patent Reform Project to Defend Innovation

EFF Launches New Patent Reform Project to Defend Innovation

Posted Jun 20, 2012 16:07 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: EFF Launches New Patent Reform Project to Defend Innovation by randomguy3
Parent article: EFF Launches New Patent Reform Project to Defend Innovation

>Perhaps they even stand a chance of success...

It's the EFI. Likelihood of success is low.

Besides that: The USA government is increasingly becoming more and more totalitarian. Elimination of software patents means losing some part of the control the government has over industry. Giving up power voluntarily is against the nature of state government; This is pretty much a universal truth.


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