[NUUG patent] Slashdot: Alan Cox on Patent Law and GPLv3

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

<URL:http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/06/11/0059204.shtml>

  "Linux kernel guru Alan Cox talks about kernel features, cooperation
  with hardware vendors, and software patents. From the interview: 'I
  don't think [Microsoft's patent threats] are the biggest danger. As
  Microsoft has been finding out recently it is the patent trolls, and
  organisations with buried patents in interesting areas that are the
  biggest threat in the USA. The real answer to that problem, however,
  is to pull the USA back into line with the majority of the world
  which simply does not recognize patents on software but respects
  them as literary works subject to copyright law.'"

Et virkelig godt forslag som jeg synes understreker hvorfor vi i Norge
bør holde på vårt regelverk som sier at blant annet programvare og
algoritmer ikke kan patenteres.

Vennlig hilsen,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen