Kill software patents

Posted Dec 5, 2008 23:49 UTC (Fri) by bignose (subscriber, #40)
In reply to: Kill software patents by bojan
Parent article: KSM runs into patent trouble

I'm not confident, as you seem to be, that the author of the cited article had any awareness of the irony. It seems more a straightforward promotion of the mission of the site: to encourage treating ideas as property.

I find all too little indication they have any awareness of a motivation for getting good ideas into the public domain. Instead, the *entire site* appears to buy into the idea that artificial, legally-enforced restriction of natural usage of information is a good thing because it's a motive for the gatekeepers to profit.

Kill software patents

Posted Dec 7, 2008 1:01 UTC (Sun) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]

Oh, no! Quite the opposite - I'm quite sure they aren't aware of it (I had a private e-mail exchange with them and they indicated that they are completely unaware of the true purpose of the patent system). That's what makes it so hilarious. And sad.