The Practical Problem With Software Patents
Nov 12, 2008, 13 :04 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (3943 reads) (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."
