On Monday, Stallman gave a talk to the Economic University of Athens about e-patents. There were some questions pointing out pretty much what you are saying. In brief, he said that dealing with the situation is hard because there are thousands of "software idea patents" and you can never know when you have one on your code, and if you find out after you have released the software then you are in big trouble. Secondly, patents are a reality in the USA, that doesn't mean that it must be a reality in the EU also, as much as cancer is a reality but that doesn't mean that we all should have...
There is a way to stop "software idea patents" in the EU and Netherlands have made the first step.
It took me about 3 minutes to find the answers of both puzzles in the internet... using google search. <b> Who is the smartest? the one who actual writes the code to find the answers in say 20 minutes or the one who uses google?
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On Monday, Stallman gave a talk to the Economic University of Athens about e-patents. There were some questions pointing out pretty much what you are saying. In brief, he said that dealing with the situation is hard because there are thousands of "software idea patents" and you can never know when you have one on your code, and if you find out after you have released the software then you are in big trouble. Secondly, patents are a reality in the USA, that doesn't mean that it must be a reality in the EU also, as much as cancer is a reality but that doesn't mean that we all should have...
There is a way to stop "software idea patents" in the EU and Netherlands have made the first step.
It took me about 3 minutes to find the answers of both puzzles in the internet... using google search.
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Who is the smartest? the one who actual writes the code to find the answers in say 20 minutes or the one who uses google?