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Perens on Patents
mowa sent us a link to the one of the latest interviews on sendmail.net. This time around they're talking with Bruce Perens, concerned primarily with the issue of patents. The interview uses Amazon as its example of patents gone awry - nothing much new here, but yet another perspective on the whole issue.
Update: 02/16 11:40 by michael : A while back, we received a submission that never made it into a story of its own, but will fit nicely here. Bryce wrote: "Several of the WorldForge developers, impressed at the quality of comments on the patent story posted a few days ago and wanting to see those comments preserved in a useful form, edited all of the replies into a useful, readable set of documents. The article is most definitely, "Written by Slashdot, For Slashdot". Many of our team members put in a few hours each sorting and summarizing, in the hopes it'd get some good press for WorldForge."
First off, links with no commentary are boring and soulless.
"Let ME be the judge of whether it's new and insightful (or inciteful) or not."
This implies that when the authors add commentary, they AREN'T letting you be the judge of wether it's new and insightful. But they aren't doing anything of the sort. They're only providing their view of it, and you are free to ignore it.
But I don't think you're actually saying that YOU personally would be be misguided by their comments. I mean, you clearly saw through it on this story. Rather, I think you're looking down at the the other slashdot readers and thinking that they might not be as smart as you, and might not be able to think for themselves, and WILL be misguided. Which is really degrading... you should be ashamed of yourself.