Patent… evil or good?
Aug 04, 2006 in Philosophy
I was thinking to develop a social network site for quite some time now and for the pass few weeks I was debugging… fixing… a social network site for a client. I didnt develop it ground up, just took over it from a loser who didn’t finish what he started. While doing my research on social networking, I came across news about Friendster’s Social Network patent! It looks like just about anything can be patent….
IMHO, patent is… EVIL. It really limits innovation. The patent was granted by the U.S patent office, can Friendster sue me if I am residing in Malaysia? =) Are there any way to be innovative without restrictions? Patent on software especially, should be abolished. hmm… I am writing funny… maybe it’s something to do with the time being 5am….