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Stop talking about "Software Patents" as being special

Stop talking about "Software Patents" as being special

Posted Nov 8, 2012 22:43 UTC (Thu) by pboddie (subscriber, #50784)
In reply to: Stop talking about "Software Patents" as being special by dlang
Parent article: Let’s Limit the Effect of Software Patents, Since We Can’t Eliminate Them (Wired)

I seem to recall an article, in which one such company was featured, where the trick of feeding the easily-impressed amongst the media the impression of genuine, non-litigious work being done appeared to be already well-established, eliciting observations that "these people are really inventing stuff - they have people in lab coats with test tubes!"


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