Gartner: Dear Congress - Please Ignore the IT Industry
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Started by: zoobabzoobab
Date: 08 May 2009 09:59
Number of posts: 1
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Summary:
I include in this the segment of the “open source community” (whoever they actually are) which is vehemently anti-patent. What they position as a highly principled “open access benefits society” argument for the elimination of software and business method patents can rightly be seen as a convenience for those advocating an industry realignment towards service-based business models. One can’t help but think that they just don’t want 3rd party ownership issues to interfere with their ability to make money. Noticeably absent from this perspective, though, is a broader debate on whether these arguments are valid without scrapping the patent system as a whole.
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