Red Hat failed to achieve the Supreme Court decision it wanted [LWN.net]

Red Hat failed to achieve the Supreme Court decision it wanted

Posted Oct 1, 2010 5:36 UTC (Fri) by linuxrocks123 (subscriber, #34648)
In reply to: Red Hat failed to achieve the Supreme Court decision it wanted by FlorianMueller
Parent article: Red Hat Responds to U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Request for Guidance on Bilski

If you don't think an approach is effective, don't follow it and suggest a different course of action. Since you don't have a different course of action to suggest in the short term, if all you have to say is, "you're wasting your time", just shut up. All you could possibly accomplish is to demoralize your allies.

---linuxrocks123

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Red Hat failed to achieve the Supreme Court decision it wanted

Posted Oct 1, 2010 6:03 UTC (Fri) by FlorianMueller (guest, #32048) [Link] (1 responses)

and suggest a different course of action. Since you don't have a different course of action to suggest in the short term, if all you have to say is, "you're wasting your time", just shut up

You commented on this before reading the discussion as a whole. I pointed out that neither the judges nor the patent office will do away with software patents; only Congress can. I then said that if you want to convince politicians, don't show a Red Hat kind of business model (which works for them but wouldn't work for the economy at large) but bring out those middle-aged closed-source entrepreneurs with beards, bellies and glasses and have them talk to politicians about how badly they suffer under software patents. Then you can make politicians rethink. However, it appears that those kinds of entrepreneurs don't have a serious problem with the current situation: they look at those patents as a cost of doing business, not as something they really have to fight against.

Red Hat failed to achieve the Supreme Court decision it wanted

Posted Oct 2, 2010 1:33 UTC (Sat) by linuxrocks123 (subscriber, #34648) [Link]

You are incorrect. I read the entirety of your defeatist arguments before posting.

---linuxrocks123