[1/*] At some point very soon, we as US developers must present a unified front to the government to get software patents removed from US patent law permanently. They have held hearings on this, and most voices they hear are large corporate spokespeople.https://twitter.com/molecularmusing/status/1435152417813893120 …
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[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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Replying to @cmuratori
It’s too bad the EFF couldn’t organize its way out of a paper bag. Although I suspect their milquetoast efforts are not actually incompetence, but that they’ve been captured by industry and serve as a useful foil.
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Replying to @ezysigh
The EFF likes software patents. Several of us tried to convince them to be against software patents, but they steadfastly refused, and instead supported the idea of software patents while focusing on getting rid of "bad" software patents :(
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As I said in https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0027 , I have never seen the EFF nor anyone else propose a rigorous definition for what a "bad" software patent is, though, as opposed to a "good" software patent. I guess it's just "if the EFF thinks it's good, it's good"?
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