Software patents in the cloud

Posted Apr 7, 2017 8:40 UTC (Fri) by Seegras (guest, #20463)
Parent article: Software patents in the cloud

The granting [of] patents ‘inflames cupidity', excites fraud, stimulates men to run after schemes that may enable them to levy a tax on the public, begets disputes and quarrels betwixt inventors, provokes endless lawsuits...The principle of the law from which such consequences flow cannot be just. -- The Economist, July 26, 1851

And that is even after all the illegally granted patents on mathematical algorithms (aka all software patents) are thrown out.