[LINK] Perens on Patents

[Chirgwin, Richard]

Via /. this BBC interview with Bruce Perens:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3422853.stm

>The biggest challenge that will face us after that is software >patenting.
Software patents that are being accepted are not necessarily >inventions,
their definitions are overbroad. And you can never finish a >patent search.
The definitions are so broad, you can't ever be sure a >company would or
would not assert their patent on what you are doing. 

Mind you, I could easily have enjoyed three times as much on this topic!

RC