Facebook Ordered To Turn Over Source Code

consonant writes "A Delaware District Court judge has ordered Facebook to turn over ALL its source code to Leader Technologies, who allege patent infringements by Facebook. The patent in question appears to be for 'associating a piece of data with multiple categories.' Additionally, while the judge in question deems it fine to let Leader Technologies look at Facebook's source (for a patent, no less!) in its entirety for a single feature, it would be 'overboard to ask a patent holder to disclose all of their products that practice any claim of the patent-in-suit.'"

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Re:How about patent reform?

[Archangel Michael]

It isn't just Corporate Money trying to kill healthcare reform. It is Trial Lawyers keeping Tort Reform off the table. It is Senior Groups not wanting anyone to touch Medicare (fourth rail of politics). You have illegal alien support groups not wanting ID checks on nationalized heath insurance.

Then you have the whole Tax on Trade (aka Cap and Trade) and Green energy. Just take a look at my summary below.

1)GE wants Green Energy
2)GE owns NBC
4)NBC loves BHO
5)BHO loves Green Energy programs
6)???
7)Profit!

And this is just in, GM and Chrysler cannot (as in EVER) payback what was given to them under TARP. And now, Government is trying to take over Healthcare, and we think this is a good thing why???

Pardon me for thinking government screws up as much as private sector. Except we keep thinking government is the solution to all the worlds ills, when it is the cause of many of them.

Looking at some of these issues, and patent reform seems almost SILLY. Yeah, patent system sucks right now, and costs the world all sorts of inefficiencies.

Let us look at where things are inefficient, and try to streamline those areas and not make wholesale changes to the system that doesn't really address the inefficiencies.