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Perens on Patents

Posted by michael on from the perennial dept.

lewiz writes "An interesting interview with Bruce Perens over at the BBC. He's up discussing the role of HP, IBM, et al and the move towards Linux. However, his main point is about software patents and how they are much more of a problem than SCO: 'We're looking at a future where only the very largest companies will be able to implement software, and it will technically be illegal for other people to do so.'"

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  1. ugh by digitalsushi · · Score: 3, Funny

    'We're looking at a future where only the very largest companies will be able to implement software, and it will technically be illegal for other people to do so.'"

    Well, that will work out good when in the future we all work at The Company.

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  2. Re:CS is math by MarkusQ · · Score: 3, Funny

    Excellent. I think I need to come up with a shorter version of that to turn into my new sig!

    *smile* Fine, so long as you realize that it's my intellectual property.

    -- MarkusQ

    P.S. For a while (1999?) my sig was "Intellectual Property is neither."