[2/*] When large companies tell Congress that software patents are good, it absolutely would - no matter what anyone tells you - it absolutely would make a massive difference if large amounts of their programmers stood up and contradicted them loudly, and publicly.
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[3/*] We must organize, and we must state loudly, unambiguously, and unanimously that software patents do not work; that the brightest and most productive programmers _do not use them_; that most brilliant algorithms never were patented; and that we don't want this law.
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[4/*] I have ranted about this issue for years. You can see an example rant here: https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0027 I will happily go ten rounds with _anyone_ who thinks they can argue that software patents are good. AN. Y. ONE. There is simply no defense for software patents.
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[5/*] But it doesn't matter how strong the liberty, economic, or common sense arguments are. This is a problem with organization. And unless and until we have a strong community leader who will relentlessly organize a campaign that we can sign on to and support, we're stuck.
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[6/*] So if somebody out there who likes organizing is looking for a single issue - and a nonpartisan one at that! - you could do a lot worse than being the person who lead the campaign to finally end US software patents.
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[7/*] And in case you didn't already know, it has happened before. Congress intervened to exempt doctors from patent infringement on surgical techniques. It's 35 U.S.C. § 287(c): https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/35/287 …
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I checked the state of this and even Tim Sweeney has several filed and granted (they are much narrower than this ECS BS) despite the fact that he doesn't like them. If those who dislike them have to file them defensively or cannot
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control patent strategy in their own company, how do you think it can be approached? Also what do you think should be done regarding people not sharing how they are doing something because they cannot patent it weak argument? it is weak for software because A you cannot defend /
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Patents in general come with so many issues, maybe they should be removed from law completely
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I don't disagree, but because I am only a software engineer, I don't quite feel qualified to state as definitively that other patents are harmful. I can unambiguously and without reservation state that software patents are very, very harmful to software innovation.
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