Hardware Hacker Proposes Patent and Education Reform To Obama

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday February 17, 2013 @04:47AM from the listen-up dept.

ptorrone writes "In a welcome turn of events, President Barack Obama spoke directly to the patent troll problem and the need for more comprehensive patent reform yesterday in a 'Fireside Hangout' — a live question and answer session (video) hosted in a Google+ hangout. The President was responding to a question by the prominent electrical engineer and entrepreneur Limor 'Ladyada' Fried of Adafruit Industries, who in 2009 won an EFF Pioneer Award for her work with free software and open-source hardware."

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Re:"Trolls" Are Misdirection by tqk · 2013-02-17 05:58 · Score: 4, Informative

The "patent troll" misdirection is harming our ability to fix the actual problem.
Yet once you fix that problem, the fuckers sue you in order to break it again. We don't have enough lawyers (preferably politicos) on the ocean floor.

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