RSA patent good?
RSA patent good?
Posted Jul 15, 2005 16:33 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (guest, #1954)In reply to: European rejection of software patents is a victory for open source by flewellyn
Parent article: European rejection of software patents is a victory for open source
I'll buy that RSA is novel, non-obvious, and a true advancement of the state of the art, and therefore refreshingly within the letter of patent law, but: Would you say RSA was expensive to invent? Did it take so much work to think of that its inventor wouldn't have bothered if he didn't get a piece of the action every time it's used?
If not, then it still falls outside of what ought to be patentable, in many people's value system, since the patent only serves to transfer wealth to people who have great ideas from people who don't.