{"id":184051,"date":"2012-08-21T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T00:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/08\/21\/google-agrees-with-me\/"},"modified":"2012-08-21T19:38:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T00:38:00","slug":"google-agrees-with-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/08\/21\/google-agrees-with-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Agrees With Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They think that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13578_3-57496747-38\/google-time-to-ditch-our-current-software-patent-system\/\">software patents suck wet farts from dead pigeons<\/a> too:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Google suggested today that it might be time for the U.S. to ditch software patents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One thing that we are very seriously taking a look at is the question of software patents, and whether in fact the patent system as it currently exists is the right system to incent innovation and really promote consumer-friendly policies,&#8221; said Pablo Chavez, Google&#8217;s public policy director.<\/p>\n<p>Chavez&#8217;s remarks at the Technology Policy Institute&#8217;s conference here this morning come as the Mountain View, Calif. company is enmeshed in a series of legal actions involving software patents, including Oracle (which Google won at trial) and Apple (which is still pending).<\/p>\n<p>Software patents have become increasingly controversial in technology circles, in part because of the rise of what are derisively called &#8220;patent trolls,&#8221; and in part because of the mixed quality of the patents that the U.S. government has granted. In April, Twitter announced a kind of Hippocratic Oath for tech companies, saying its patents would only be used for defensive purposes &#8212; not to block rivals from innovating. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How about <strike>throwing some money towards the whores in Congress<\/strike> investing in some lobbying to change the laws.<\/p>\n<p>IP as currently administrated in the United States are a major impediment to innovation, not the incentive to innovation it is supposed to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They think that software patents suck wet farts from dead pigeons too: Google suggested today that it might be time for the U.S. to ditch software patents. &#8220;One thing that we are very seriously taking a look at is the question of software patents, and whether in fact the patent system as it currently exists &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1109,1191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","category-patent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}