Re: [News] World Day Against Software Patents Ends; Oracle a Patent Slammer

["Phil Da Lick!" <phil_the_lick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hadron wrote:
> "Phil Da Lick!" <phil_the_lick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> > > ,----[ Quote ]
> > > |     Oracle Corporation opposes the patentability of software. The
> > > Company |     believes that existing copyright law and available
> > > trade secret |     protections, as opposed to patent law, are better
> > > suited to protecting |     computer software developments.   | |
> > > […]
> > > | |     Compared to adequate copyright and trade secret protections,
> > > patent |     protection is excessively broad and enormously
> > > expensive. | |     CHANGING THE PATENT SYSTEM
> > > | |     Oracle has recommended that patent protection not be
> > > provided for |     computer software or computer software
> > > algorithms, for the reasons |     described above.  `----
> > Oracle have just gone up in my estimation.
> You are a fickle little fan boy aren't you?
Of freedom? No. Nothing fickle about it, it's rock solid.