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Perens on Patents

Posted by michael on Friday January 23, 2004 @05:19AM 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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Re:Prior Art by angle_slam · 2004-01-23 05:51 · Score: 1, Redundant

In theory, the patent office does look for all prior art. In reality, they primarily look at prior patents.