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     1 #+title: Thoughts on Patents

     2 #+author: Robert McIntyre

     3 #+email: rlm@mit.edu

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    10 * Patents generally an inhibitive force.

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    12 Patents are usually a negative force, one that allows you to stop

    13   other entities from using knowledge to their own advantage.

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    15 * Google has created "neutral" patents via a pledge which attaches conditions to its patents.

    16   Google has a pledge at

    17   http://www.google.com/patents/opnpledge/pledge/ that says that for

    18   certain specified patents "we pledge not to sue any user,

    19   distributor or developer of open-source software on specified

    20   patents, unless first attacked."

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    22   This is an interesting statement to me. With this pledge, Google has

    23   created "neutral" patents that allow open source software to

    24   develop, but do not particurally encourage it to develop.

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author	Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date	Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:38:27 +0000
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