Why I'm Rooting for Microsoft

[ Thanks to E5Rebel for this link. ]

"It will not have escaped your notice that the patent system has been the subject of several posts on this blog, or that the general tenor is pretty simple: it's broken, and nowhere more evidently so than for software. Anyone can see that, but what is much harder is seeing how to fix it given the huge vested interests at work here.

"Although I'd prefer the entire system to be swept away at a stroke, I think that is somewhat unlikely, so I may have to settle for progressive improvements. And given the general inability of politicians to free themselves from the well-paid lobbyists in this area, the most promising avenue for change is probably that the companies most affected by software patents should do something about it through the courts.

"Here's what many now regard as one of the most hopeful moves in this area. What may surprise is that it's from Microsoft, a company that is not often regarded as a victim of the patent system."

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