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Microsoft Seeks Patent On Brain-Based Development

Posted by timothy on from the patent-on-defying-parody dept.

theodp writes "With its just-published patent application for Developing Software Components Based on Brain Lateralization, Microsoft provides yet another example of just how broken the patent system is. Microsoft argues that its 'invention' of having a Program Manager act as an arbitrator/communicator between a group of right-brained software users and left-brained software developers mimics 'the way that the brain communicates between its two distinct hemispheres.' One of the 'inventors' is Ray Ozzie's Technical Strategist. If granted, the patent could be used to exclude others from making, using, or selling the 'invention' for 17 years."

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  1. Karma Bedamned! by rts008 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I will shoot myself in the face before I accept MS's ideology.
    I'm happy with Kubuntu 8.04, so GO AWAY MS.
    Check my post history-I gave up on MS's bullshit long ago.

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