Opinion: Software patents are a temptation; temptation leads to stagnation; stagnation leads to the Dark Side.Read the rest of Mr. Coffee’s opinion here.
Software patents, in the idiom of the Star Wars saga, are the Dark Side of the Force. If everyone would forswear their power to destroy, the universe would be a better place—but that happy state is dangerously unstable.
As soon as even one of the defenders of peace and justice falls into the vortex of hatred, the others face the dilemma of how to fight him without ultimately sharing his fate.
Sunday, April 03, 2005
Bill Gates, Jedi?
Peter Coffee writes for eweek.com
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