The real losers
The real losers
Posted Aug 12, 2009 23:46 UTC (Wed) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)Parent article: Patent fun: Microsoft Word sales banned in the US
Is, of course, all of us. We will be paying more for software as a result of this. Yeah, I know - some will say we all use free software here. But, our governments don't. Our kids in schools don't. And we all pay for this.
Sad, sad, sad. The legislators persist with this kind of nonsense (i.e. software patents), because they must have some interest in it. Otherwise, there is a clear negative for the society as a result of this.
PS. For the ones not believing that this particular patent is nothing but an algorithm, just read the patent text. They actually _explicitly_ say it is. Pathetic.