Personally i am all for patents in principle. You should be rewarded for research and discoveries that you make. My problem is that the patent concept is being roundly abused and this is causing problems all round e.g. patenting things that are obvious.

As for IBM & Co, if you were them you'd do the same thing. Things are at a stage that you have to patent before the other guy does -- think of it as the new nuclear arms race

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 9:24 AM, simiyu mse <kensimiyu@gmail.com> wrote:
the evils of capitalism rear their heads. making money is what it is
all about with these patents.

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