{"id":16773,"date":"2010-02-20T17:00:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/20\/unblogged-bits-for-sat-20-feb-2010-700pm.html"},"modified":"2010-02-20T17:00:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T00:00:25","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-sat-20-feb-2010-700pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/20\/unblogged-bits-for-sat-20-feb-2010-700pm.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Sat, 20 Feb 2010, 7:00PM"},"content":{"rendered":"
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. <\/p>\n
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  1. Software patents are the problem not the answer<\/a> – I agree with the writer here, not the person he’s quoting. Software patents are horrible, pernicious, counter-progressive. They try to lock up IDEAS, not expressions of them, and inevitably benefit only a handful (most of them in business suits).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. Software patents are the problem not the answer – I agree with the writer here, not the person he’s quoting. Software patents are horrible, pernicious, counter-progressive. They try to lock up IDEAS, not expressions of them, and inevitably benefit … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits for Sat, 20 Feb 2010, 7:00PM”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43146,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/19\/reining-in-software-patents.html","url_meta":{"origin":16773,"position":0},"title":"Reining in Software Patents","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 19-Jun-14 2:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Definitely good news, as SCOTUS rules you can't take an unpatentable idea, idea, slap on \"... on a computer,\" and patent it. \u00a0Sanest thing to happen in the patent world in a looooong time.Reshared post from +Andreas SchouMore on this later, but the TL;DR version is that while the Supreme\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26173,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/08\/patently-absurd-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":16773,"position":1},"title":"Patently absurd","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 8-Feb-12 9:32am","format":false,"excerpt":"Reading through the actual \"patents\" that Microsoft is claiming here convinces me more than ever that our whole software patent processes is FUBAR. 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Yeesh. #ddtb Embedded Link Oblivious Supreme Court poised to legalize medical patents On Wednesday, the Supreme Court considered whether to allow patents on a physician's use of scientific research to inform\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30042,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/30\/perhaps-apples-zany-patents-arent-as-zany-as-they-seem.html","url_meta":{"origin":16773,"position":4},"title":"Perhaps Apple's zany patents aren't as zany as they seem","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 30-Aug-12 10:05pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Or as zany all-encompassing as Apple would like you (and juries) to believe.Reshared post from +The Verge Embedded Link The myth of pinch-to-zoom: how a confused media gave Apple something it doesn't own In 2007, Steve Jobs stood on stage, listing the benefits of Apple's then-new iPhone touchscreen. \"You can\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":130491,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/25\/patents-profits-and-pot.html","url_meta":{"origin":16773,"position":5},"title":"Patents, profits, and pot","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 25-Apr-16 11:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The gradual but (to my mind) inexorable spread of legalized marijuana is going to generate business white papers for decades. 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