[yak@collab] Re: On Software Patents

[Jonathan Cheyer <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Eric Armstrong wrote:    (01)

> Hear hear. (Here here? I never really understood that phrase.)     (02)

I'm not sure accurate this is, but one possible origin is defined at 
http://phrases.shu.ac.uk/meanings/178100.html    (03)


A related but even worse problem than software patents is the decision 
by the Court of Appeals (and the USPTO) to allow patents on business 
methods. An interesting article at the New Yorker:    (04)

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?030714ta_talk_surowiecki    (05)

Jonathan    (06)


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