Court Cases and IT

Bedrock Computer Technologies, LLC v. Softlayer Technologies, Inc. et al
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Please someone intervene here! Old lawyers in long robes, requiring corporations that use Open Source software to prove themselves innocent of infringing on patents that should have never been allowed to be issued. As we’ve mentioned before, software programs are built on top of prior inventions that are built on prior inventions. Carving out one’s piece of the pie by convincing a government official to issue a patent is corrupt and dangerous to everyone.  This is despicable! What’s worse, is that the big corporations are playing the same games. The fact remains, there is no ethical way a person can “invent” a tiny thing that uses hundreds of other “inventions” and then charge people to use it without paying every other inventor in the line. In short, patents + IT = train wreck.

I sure hope Google doesn’t end up paying these patent poachers. At the same time, maybe Google will stop playing their claim games also. It still bugs me that they scrape every website on the internet and earn their money off of our content. Even redisplaying it in their own format. Then they establish rules about our sites that they don’t even apply to their own! Virtual morals suck.