Comments on: Microsoft--license to deal

You back my patent, I'll back yours. That could be the software giant's motto in its quest for intellectual property.

[savvysooner]

Who needs Directors with Interlocking Patents

Evidence of the utter failure of anti-trust. Maybe those open source, free software people are on to something!

[savvysooner]

Who needs Directors with Interlocking Patents

Evidence of the utter failure of anti-trust. Maybe those open source, free software people are on to something!

[rdean]

More evidence the patent system is broken...

The big companies all band together and form an interlocking web of patents that the little guy can't penetrate. I thought patents were supposed to protect the little guy from the big companies that had the resources to rip off their ideas and price them out of the market.

[rdean]

More evidence the patent system is broken...

The big companies all band together and form an interlocking web of patents that the little guy can't penetrate. I thought patents were supposed to protect the little guy from the big companies that had the resources to rip off their ideas and price them out of the market.

This is wrong

Patenting FAT, an array of pointers. What is next, patenting the for loop or binary trees?

Patents and software go to together liek Bush and intelligent thought. They just don't mix. Look at all the advancements in software, from algorithms to computer languages. What if Dr. Stroustrup patented C++, or Richie did that with C? What about all the algorithms that programmers use everyday to produce faster code?

We would still be in the dark ages of computing, with no chance to escape. Copyright your code to your hearts content, but leave patents out of it.

This is wrong

Patenting FAT, an array of pointers. What is next, patenting the for loop or binary trees?

Patents and software go to together liek Bush and intelligent thought. They just don't mix. Look at all the advancements in software, from algorithms to computer languages. What if Dr. Stroustrup patented C++, or Richie did that with C? What about all the algorithms that programmers use everyday to produce faster code?

We would still be in the dark ages of computing, with no chance to escape. Copyright your code to your hearts content, but leave patents out of it.