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i-Technology Viewpoint: "The Network is the Computer and...Open Source is its Soul" Says Simon Phipps
'I'm convinced that the reform that's needed is a root-and-branch reform of the very concept of the patent,' contends Simon Phipps. Today's software patents, Phipps believes, breach the social contract on which the concept of a patent is based.
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[from the article]
> While the progress of the software
> industry's know-how was only being advanced
> by corporations, there was a (barely
> plausible) rationale for software patents;
> their lawyers could decode the patents. But
> now the individual developer acting in
> community is an equal source of progress,
> it is clear to me that the social contract
> is broken.

This is a VERY big idea. And you have expressed it here with great simplicity. So, what next?


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