IBM says software patents drive OSS development http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-179907/ibm-says-software-patents-drive-oss-development Posts in the discussion thread "IBM says software patents drive OSS development" - In its Amicus Brief to the US Supreme Court on the Bilski case, IBM is arguing that "patent protection has promoted the free sharing of source code [...] which has fueled the explosive growth of open source software development." http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-179907#post-576236 Re: IBM says software patents drive OSS development http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-179907/ibm-says-software-patents-drive-oss-development#post-576236 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:45:37 +0000 zoobab 2946 Read also page 42 of the IBM letter:

In addition, disclosure of software inventions promotes collaboration among software developers (such as open source development)

Insane.

]]> http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-179907#post-575006 IBM says software patents drive OSS development http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-179907/ibm-says-software-patents-drive-oss-development#post-575006 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:30:26 +0000 zoobab 2946 In its Amicus Brief to the US Supreme Court on the Bilski case, IBM is arguing that

patent protection has promoted the free sharing of source code […] which has fueled the explosive growth of open source software development.

IBM also argue that the machine-or-tranformation test allow software to be patented, and that:

software patent protection provides significant economic, technological, and societal benefits.

IBM also "finds alarming decisions in the wake of Bilski concluding that software is excluded from patentable subject matter" making references to the BPAI decisions on Ex Parte Altman. IBM also says that they are "committed to ensuring that such technology [software] is and remains patentable"."

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