<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Charles Shapiro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
The US Supreme Court has officially decided In Re Bilski. It has at<br>
least started to hint that software and business methods may not be<br>
patentable.<br>
This is really good news if you write or use open-source software.<br>
<br>
-- CHS<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br>Yes it is generally very good news. As usual, groklaw did a good job covering it. Here's the link:<br><br><br><a href="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100628100422167">http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100628100422167</a><br>
<br>Larry<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>"I see design standards that don't tell you how to come up with a good design (only how to write it down), employee evaluation standards that don't help you build meaningful long-term relationships with staff, testing standards that don't tell you how to invent a test that is worth running."<br>
<br> Tom DeMarco<br> Slack<br><br>