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Obama Taps IBM Open Source Advocate For USPTO
langelgjm writes "President Obama has announced his intent to nominate David Kappos, a VP and general counsel at IBM, to head the US Patent and Trademark Office. This move is particularly notable not only because of IBM's much friendlier attitudes towards open source compared with some of their rivals, but also because Kappos himself is open source-friendly: 'We are now the biggest supporters of the open source development project,' explains David. 'Admittedly this policy is not easily reconcilable with our traditional IP strategy, but we are convinced that it is the way to go for the future.' Not just a lawyer, Kappos earned an engineering degree before working in the legal field. Kappos has been described as 'critical of the American approach to patent policy.' Given his background, could this mean a new era for US patent policy?"
Obama's decisions never hurt a fly.
I'd rather you rationally disagree than irrationally agree.
Boot to the head.
Kappos is on record as saying that in the U.S., "Trivial patents are being granted. By contrast, the system is better in Europe."
He's saying something in Europe is better than in the US? My God, what kind of monster is this guy? He must be a socialist atheist gay-marrying cheese-eating surrender monkey terrorist lover! The Senate should not only deny his confirmation, they should kick him out of the country!
America, love it or leave it! God's country! U-S-A! U-S-A!
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
So you are saying we're screwed?
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
As a European with a taste for good cheese, from Dutch Goudse or Leidse kaas, or pitjeskaas to French blue cheese or brie or goats cheese, I've always been confused with American Cheese:
First: it's not called cheese: its' called American Process Cheese Food (look on the Kraft bricks)
Second: which part are you supposed to eat? The thin crunchy transparent stuff that is around the square yellow substance, or the yellow plastic substance with no flavor or texture?