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Alan Cox on Patent Law and GPLv3

Posted by Zonk on from the checking-in-with-the-cox dept.

tykev writes "Linux kernel guru Alan Cox talks about kernel features, cooperation with hardware vendors, and software patents. From the interview: 'I don't think [Microsoft's patent threats] are the biggest danger. As Microsoft has been finding out recently it is the patent trolls, and organisations with buried patents in interesting areas that are the biggest threat in the USA. The real answer to that problem, however, is to pull the USA back into line with the majority of the world which simply does not recognize patents on software but respects them as literary works subject to copyright law.'"

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  1. Ouch! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    pull the USA back into line with the majority of the world

    I thought the US is the majority of the world...

    At least my TV says so.

    1. Re:Ouch! by ScrewMaster · · Score: 2, Funny

      Better get a new TV then, it's obviously broken. I hear China is making them now.

      --
      The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
  2. Satire by Cafe+Alpha · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm looking to the satire loophole applying to software - that you can use code in order to make fun of it.

  3. Re:Wait For It by Simon80 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Of course! If we stop recognizing software patents, then the terrorists win.