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Originally Posted by Voodoo
Instead of flat-out dropping software patents, they should just invent a new "type" of patent. All current "Patent" holders for software related property, would automatically be converted to this new type.
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i would expect google, ibm, microsoft, apple, etc to have this thing tied up with lobbyists and lawsuits, etc for years.
there is too much money at stake. there are current licensees of patents that wouldn't have to pay, therefore resulting in billions of dollars lost to the patent holders is what they will be crying about.
I am glad to see there is a realization that process patents that don't make anything tangible are under attack.
Fight the whining!