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May 27, 2008 8:06 PM PDT

Patent brainwashing in elementary schools (???)

by Matt Asay
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Alas! The terrible things they're teaching my children in schools these days, probably funded by Microsoft's OnMyWay program!

I went to visit my son's class today, and discovered that they had been submitting proposals for patents, their teachers clearly no fans of innovation.... :-)

(Credit: Matt Asay)

I'd better go buy that home schooling manual.

Matt Asay brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to The Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business strategies and opportunities. Matt is vice president of business development at Alfresco, a company that develops open-source software for content management. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure. You can follow Matt on Twitter @mjasay.
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by jrepenning May 28, 2008 12:10 PM PDT
You should volunteer to come in and present the alternative view!
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by sanenazok October 31, 2008 10:07 AM PDT
Oh yeah gawd forbid the kids should learn about the real world instead of some OSS fantasy land. Your kids better know what patents are...even if you don't agree with the principle.
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by kfr01 February 26, 2009 6:39 PM PST
Learning about patents and getting your kids to think about novel ideas is bad? Wow, Matt. Really?
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Matt Asay brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to the Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business strategies and opportunities. Matt is general manager of the Americas division and vice president of business development at Alfresco, a company that develops open-source software for content management. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.

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