{"id":397,"date":"2004-12-07T22:27:31","date_gmt":"2004-12-07T14:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/?p=397"},"modified":"2007-10-20T18:57:06","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T10:57:06","slug":"patent-me-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/archives\/397","title":{"rendered":"Patent me not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading the articles inside the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nosoftwarepatents.com\/en\/m\/intro\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">NoSoftwarePatents.com<\/a> site a week ago and I was looking for views from the &#8216;other side of the fence&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>But when I read about a post that says <font size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/varchars.com\/blog\/node\/view\/141\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft applies for patent on reading email as plain text<\/a><\/font> a couple of days ago, I think I don&#8217;t want to go further anymore. <\/p>\n<p>Tell me this is a joke.<\/p>\n<p>Software companies should be run by noble, innovative and visionary developers and not by greedy marketeers nor abusive-make-money-out-of-patents-lovin&#8217; lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>Stress on the adjectives&#8230; not the person\/entities.<\/p>\n<p>(To be fair, I&#8217;ll post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.panopticoncentral.net\/archive\/2004\/11\/20\/2321.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">this link<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0001011\/2004\/11\/20.html#a8682\" target=\"_blank\">this link<\/a> too.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading the articles inside the NoSoftwarePatents.com site a week ago and I was looking for views from the &#8216;other side of the fence&#8217;. But when I read about a post that says Microsoft applies for patent on reading email as plain text a couple of days ago, I think I don&#8217;t want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomlinks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}