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IBM's Supreme Court Brief Says That Patents Drive Free Software

Yro · Ibm · 2009-09-03 04:34 · posted by timothy · from the corellation-is-not-causation dept. · 284 comments

H4x0r Jim Duggan writes "For the Supreme Court's upcoming review of the Bilski decision, IBM has submitted an amicus brief claiming that software patents 'fueled the explosive growth of open source software development' (!) (p38 of linked PDF). EndSoftwarePatents, for its own amicus brief, is looking for help building a list of free software harmed by software patents, and a list of companies that distribute free software and are taxed by patent royalties."
Red Hat Claims Patent On SOAP Over CGI

Linux · Patents · 2009-03-20 03:29 · posted by kdawson · from the wash-your-mouth-out dept. · 191 comments

WMGarrison writes "US Patent 7453593 claims command-line processing by a web server of SOAP requests, resulting in XML responses, from and to a remote client. The HTTP Common Gateway Interface (CGI) operates precisely as described in Claim 1. If you POST a SOAP document and return an XHTML response or a SOAP document, this infringes Claim 2, since both XHTML and SOAP are XML languages. This patent thus claims to own the processing of SOAP documents by CGI programs."