Software patents should be abolished, plain and simple. Software is already covered by copyright, making patent protection unnecessary.
A very clear and compelling story that patents are not tools to ensure creators get their due but rather that they are used to stifle others.
A Patent Lie: How Yahoo Weaponized My Work | Epicenter | Wired.com
Today, everyone is patent happy and every small little action is patented, so Microsoft will have its proprietary set, Apple and Google will have theirs, all the other vendors will have theirs.
Interesting discussion on the future of gestural interfaces and interaction patterns.
The bigger question for me is really wondering why we’ve allowed companies to patent interaction patterns. It’s not like we let people patent a specific way to swing a hammer in the past.
