Death by Patent

Our attempt to put a price on intellectual property is choking us, here's an article about software patents and why the programmers asked to write them consider them a joke. And why we ALL pay the price of this legal jungle.

via @_pablo

Unfortunately, the joke is on all of us. It’s on our economy, as we let patents choke down innovation and increase fear, uncertainty, and doubt in an already uncertain time. It’s on our bottom lines, as we make busy-work for our expensive lawyers with their sparkling eyes instead of investing for the future. And it’s on our collective consciousness, as we force good and decent people to act against the better angels of their nature.

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