Why Bill Gates Wants 3,000 New Patents - New York Times: "'EXCITING,' 'uninteresting' and 'not exciting' don't seem like technical terms. But they show up a lot in United States patent application No. 20,050,160,457, titled 'Annotating Programs for Automatic Summary Generation.' It seems to be about baseball. The inventors have apparently come up with software that can detect the portions of a baseball broadcast that contain what they call 'excited speech,' as well as hits (what I call 'excited ball') and automatically compile those portions into a highlights reel."
The Next 10 Years is not all "happy, happy, joy, joy" - there is a dark underbelly and patents that stifle innovation are a primary concern. While I don't view Microsoft as the Borg incarnate - a flood of trivial patents (adding and removing white space from documents) do amount to a company seeking hegemony.
Freedom to innovate is the what propels us to a better future - let's work to keep the innovative freedom alive.
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