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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. Respectfully disagree. by ushering05401 · · Score: 0, Troll

    It is the government that is the biggest danger in the USA, not the other parties mentioned.

    Now, if you could seize control of Microsoft (or any other patent troll org) by spending a ton of cash to win a popularity contest every four years, then they would be the most dangerous organizations.

    Regards.