Apple Patent Suit Declared iSmog 0
First, a judge gave Oracle their walking papers, and now, this:
The ruling came from Judge Richard Posner in Chicago federal court. He dismissed the litigation between Apple and Motorola Mobility with prejudice, meaning it can’t be refiled.
Judges seem to be educating themselves to see through the lawyerly smokescreen about software patents.
Software patents are ludicrous, because they are attempts to patent ideas–attempts to keep other persons from carrying out that idea in a better way. Suppose some dude in the 1880’s had patented the concept of powered heavier-than-air flight and threatened to sue the Wright brothers when they finally got it–er–wrignt?
We would never have had the opportunity to sit in metal tubes for hours at a time without air conditioning while waiting for those “mechanical difficulties” to be remedied.
What can be copyrighted and licensed is software code, which is a work product, the fruition of an idea.
Even a Forbes columnist thinks they are evil.
