NPR money podcast discuss patents

[rakesh mailgroups]

Very close to home this time talking about podcasts!!

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/06/05/188719954/how-one-patent-could-take-down-one-comedian

If Joe was still on the podcast, I'd make some clever comment about chickens coming home to roost!

I think we should all donate to EFF to fight crap like this!!!

Rakesh

[Fabrizio Giudici]

On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:45:57 +0200, rakesh mailgroups
<rakesh.m...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Very close to home this time talking about podcasts!!
>
> http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/06/05/188719954/how-one-patent-could-take-down-one-comedian

We're reaching higher and higher peaks of absurd. Trying to applying some
logic, though, I understand how mr. Logan can use the absurd patent system
to sue manufacturers of software and hardware that _reproduce_ podcasts, I
don't understand how he can purse people _creating_ podcasts... I mean,
software patent wars have been fight, so far, in the field of
manufacturers, not users. What am I missing? Should somebody find a troll
patent in the field of photography, what could we expect now?

--
Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect @ Tidalwave s.a.s.
"We make Java work. Everywhere."
http://tidalwave.it/fabrizio/blog - fabrizio...@tidalwave.it

[rakesh mailgroups]

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/496/when-patents-attack-part-two

even more damning information about how bad the patent system has become....it really came down to an apostrophe?!?!?

Rakesh