Okay, now this is some interesting stuff!

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01-10-2007, 05:37 PM

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http://money.cnn.com/blogs/legalpad/2006/1...rce=yahoo_quote

01-10-2007, 06:38 PM

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to much reading cliffnotes?

01-10-2007, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by jwteknix' post='852687' date='Jan 10 2007, 07:38 PM

to much reading cliffnotes?

Basically, the Software Freedom Law Center has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate all software patents.

"For many years the consensus assumption in the legal community was, indeed, that software, because it is just a set of instructions readable by a compatible machine, could not be patented without impermissibly carving out of the public domain fundamental laws of nature, abstract ideas, or mathematical algorithms, which the Supreme Court has previously declared to be off limits to patenting."