US Supreme Court rules against software patents

Posted Jun 19, 2014 21:58 UTC (Thu) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
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Now that our US overlords found some sense, I'm wondering what the ruling elite here in Oz will do about software patents. My guess is, probably nothing or less, given the idiotic course they've been on regarding copyright "piracy" and other "intellectual property" crap.

If it wasn't sad, it would be rather funny. On the one hand, these supposed "conservatives" and/or even "libertarians" tell us they want to get government out of our lives. On the other, they use laws to entrench privilege, precisely by doing the opposite. And if strengthening private monopolies through government intervention isn't it, then I don't know what is.

Nobody ever goes back to ask the basic question: how much of all these laws do we really need?

US Supreme Court rules against software patents

Posted Jun 19, 2014 22:28 UTC (Thu) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link] (1 responses)

> what the ruling elite here in Oz will do

And what will the riffraff do? Today's ruling is good news from the elites, but the 99% can't usually rely on the elites to fix their problems.

Ben Sturmfels managed to do great things there in recent years in Australia. He didn't do it alone, but he sure accomplished a lot for one man. Just another software developer who decided to stop waiting for someone to fix the problem.

The info on the wiki hasn't been updated in a while, but there're still good starting points there: http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Australia

US Supreme Court rules against software patents

Posted Jun 19, 2014 23:34 UTC (Thu) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]

> And what will the riffraff do?

Well, they elect guys like this into the ruling elite:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8gDKWPXPRg