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diff --git a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/trivial-patent.html b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/trivial-patent.html index 5fab4b6..95c7f93 100644 --- a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/trivial-patent.html +++ b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/trivial-patent.html @@ -1,14 +1,19 @@ <!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --> -<!-- Parent-Version: 1.79 --> - +<!-- Parent-Version: 1.96 --> +<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html --> +<!--#set var="TAGS" value="essays laws patents" --> +<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" --> <title>The Anatomy of a Trivial Patent - GNU project - Free Software Foundation</title> - <!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/trivial-patent.translist" --> <!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --> - +<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/ph-breadcrumb.html" --> +<!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE--> +<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" --> +<div class="article reduced-width"> <h2>The Anatomy of a Trivial Patent</h2> -<p>by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/"><strong>Richard Stallman</strong></a></p> +<address class="byline">by <a href="https://www.stallman.org/">Richard +Stallman</a></address> <p>Programmers are well aware that many of the existing software patents cover laughably obvious ideas. Yet the patent system's defenders often @@ -89,7 +94,7 @@ piece of music.</p> <p>It is a basic principle of computer science that if a computer can do a thing once, it can do that thing many times, on different data each time. Many patents pretend that applying this principle to a specific -case makes an “invention”.</p> +case makes an “invention.”</p> <blockquote> <p>using a computer, a computer display and a telecommunications @@ -214,7 +219,7 @@ patented the use of a RAID array for this particular purpose.</p> <p>Trivial as it is, this patent would not necessarily be found legally invalid if there is a lawsuit about it. Not only the US Patent Office but the courts as well tend to apply a very low standard -when judging whether a patent is “unobvious”. This patent +when judging whether a patent is “unobvious.” This patent might pass muster, according to them.</p> <p>What's more, the courts are reluctant to overrule the Patent @@ -242,11 +247,12 @@ analysis shows that this is no paradox. (See <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20000815064858/http://www.researchoninnovation.org/patent.pdf">researchoninnovation.org/patent.pdf</a> on web.archive.org.) There is no reason why society should expose software developers and users to the danger of software patents.</p> +</div> </div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above --> <!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" --> -<div id="footer"> +<div id="footer" role="contentinfo"> <div class="unprintable"> <p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to @@ -264,17 +270,34 @@ to <a href="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org"><webmasters@gnu.org></a>.</p> to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org"> <web-translators@gnu.org></a>.</p> - <p>For information on coordinating and submitting translations of + <p>For information on coordinating and contributing translations of our web pages, see <a href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations README</a>. --> Please see the <a href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations -README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting translations +README</a> for information on coordinating and contributing translations of this article.</p> </div> -<p>Copyright © 2006, 2016 Richard Stallman</p> +<!-- Regarding copyright, in general, standalone pages (as opposed to + files generated as part of manuals) on the GNU web server should + be under CC BY-ND 4.0. Please do NOT change or remove this + without talking with the webmasters or licensing team first. + Please make sure the copyright date is consistent with the + document. For web pages, it is ok to list just the latest year the + document was modified, or published. + + If you wish to list earlier years, that is ok too. + Either "2001, 2002, 2003" or "2001-2003" are ok for specifying + years, as long as each year in the range is in fact a copyrightable + year, i.e., a year in which the document was published (including + being publicly visible on the web or in a revision control system). + + There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers + Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. --> + +<p>Copyright © 2006, 2021 Richard Stallman</p> <p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative @@ -284,10 +307,10 @@ Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p> <p class="unprintable">Updated: <!-- timestamp start --> -$Date: 2016/11/18 06:31:39 $ +$Date: 2021/09/22 09:19:58 $ <!-- timestamp end --> </p> </div> -</div> +</div><!-- for class="inner", starts in the banner include --> </body> </html> |