Banning SW patents disables patent system?

Posted Nov 15, 2010 8:34 UTC (Mon) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
In reply to: Banning SW patents disables patent system? by FlorianMueller
Parent article: Red Hat's Secret Patent Deal and the Fate of JBoss Developers (Gigaom)

It is not their education that is making them one type or the other. In law, you don't have to obey the laws of physics! So, ever so slightly, lawyers bend the meaning of words until they bear little resemblance to what they were supposed to mean. A person practicing engineering cannot afford any such thing. If I stuff NULL into a pointer and attempt to dereference it, I'll get a segfault - that is a certainty.

Banning SW patents disables patent system?

Posted Nov 15, 2010 8:35 UTC (Mon) by FlorianMueller (guest, #32048) [Link] (1 responses)

The law isn't binary. It's more like fuzzy logic.

Banning SW patents disables patent system?

Posted Nov 15, 2010 9:29 UTC (Mon) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]

Yes, a little bit too fuzzy. So, we get things like maths != maths :-)