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Software engineer & founder of @RailsBridge and @LivableCode. Currently stirring the pot at @SalesforceUX. She/her. ✨Twitter at the speed of parenting✨

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    1. Sarah Mei‏Verified account @sarahmei Jan 14
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      Sarah Mei Retweeted Laurie Voss

      Software patents are like allowing railroad companies to patent how far apart their rails are. In other words - they discourage interoperation in an industry where interoperation is manifestly in the public interest.https://twitter.com/seldo/status/1084940413633363968 …

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      Laurie Voss @seldo
      Software patents are a bad idea because you should only be able to control your implementation, not the idea being implemented. API copyrights are a bad idea for the same reason.
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    2. Sarah Mei‏Verified account @sarahmei Jan 14
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      Most large companies encourage their designers & engineers to file software patents. However many only use them "defensively" - i.e., when threatened with infringement action by another company, they find a patent they own that the threatener is infringing.

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    3. Sarah Mei‏Verified account @sarahmei Jan 14
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      It's a useless cold war. Time to invalidate all sitting software patents and refuse to grant new ones.

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    4. Sarah Mei‏Verified account @sarahmei Jan 14
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      Because just like the historical cold war, the real losers are the small players - in this case, the startups & small companies who can't afford to amass a huge patent portfolio. Software patents discourage innovation and encourage corporate consolidation.

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    5. Sarah Mei‏Verified account @sarahmei Jan 14
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      Remember - Oracle bought Sun 100% for its patents. Oracle didn't (and still doesn't) give two shits about any of Sun's products or people.

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      Sarah Mei‏Verified account @sarahmei Jan 14
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      So two things: a) that doesn't actually happen much. Big companies can throw a building full of engineers at a problem, but it'll take them 6 months to get started on anything. A small company's advantage is speed & agility. b) For the times it does happen, patents don't help.

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