[Ubuntu-PH] Microsoft's Patent against FOSS

[hard wyrd]

Exactly.

Regardless, MS might be perceived as having fired the most recent shot after
a somewhat short ceasefire. As I have mentioned, John Soat pictured a quite
troublesome future for the various industries and technologies that we have
in place -- from mobile, to collaboration, to everything we do, should this
patent "cold war" turn into a "patent conventional war". If it turns out
ugly and every company loses sanity, then they'll be throwing patents at
each other, halting technological advances everywhere.

Most likely result, though somewhat desirable for me and might be the most
time consuming for the US Patent Office, will be to freeze all
software-related patents dated to when the US Patent Office started issuing
them and reviewing each one. Considering the countless number of patents
related to IT, it will take perhaps a generation to review them. By freezing
the patents, companies will no longer have the ammunition to poke at the
others even for a short time only.

The easiest way will be to revoke these patents indefinitely.

On 5/17/07, Jerome Gotangco <jgotangco at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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> The potential for a patent "cold war" is very real, and no one would
> really want to be associated as the party who would start it ;-)
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