Why the Patent System Doesn’t Play Well with Software : If Eolas Went the Other Way | Electronic Frontier Foundation
►https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/why-patent-system-doesnt-play
Argumentaire détaillé contre les #brevets #logiciels, où l’on voit quand même que sur un brevet aussi ridicule qu’Eolas, les #patent_trolls ont engrangé plein de $
it seems we’ve had a moment of sanity in the patent wars. Last week, a jury invalidated the dangerous Eolas patents, which their owner claimed covered, well, essentially the whole Internet. (...) The bad news: it came after the patents already caused plenty of damage. Companies large and small have taken licenses from Eolas rather than pay millions to fight in court.