The Practical Problem With Software Patents
Nov 12, 2008, 13:04 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Michael Tiemann)
"But more important than mere flattery is the fact that Venky's
Indian perspective is particularly valuable in this time of rampant
globalization. If there is one thing that the global economic
crisis of 2008 has taught us, it is that when an economically
bone-headed idea is so deeply entrenched that nobody stops to
question it, and that when such a bone-headed idea becomes adopted
as a de facto international standard, then any failure becomes a
global failure."
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