2000-10-04 23:30:02+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Via Hack The Planet, Tux2 - evil patents sighted provides further evidence of the idiocy of the current patent system. I used to think that patents had a place, but the more thinking on the very concepts of patents I do the more problems I have with them as a method for protecting intellectual property. Perhaps, if properly implemented, they could be fair, but that's about as likely as the whole "government by philosopher king" argument; more likely is that those with the better lawyers will bankrupt the truly innovative.