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silentific | 13 years ago

Much respect to the software engineers who "Decline to participate".

"The disclosure session had yielded more than a dozen potential patents when an engineer, an Apple veteran, spoke up. “I would like to decline to participate,” ... The engineer explained that he didn’t believe companies should be allowed to own basic software concepts."

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ecolak|13 years ago

Yea, the people who actually build this stuff should have a greater say in whether it should be patented or not I think.