http://hothardware.com/cs/search/SearchResults.aspx?s=46&o=DateDescending&tag=Patents,Motoroloa,Microsoft&orTags=0Search results matching tags 'Patents', 'Motoroloa', and 'Microsoft'en-USCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)http://hothardware.com/cs/forums/p/51112/374774.aspx#374774Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:06:59 GMTba4e517a-01ef-48a6-b096-821b95afe388:374774mhenriday<p>Vital patent reform #1 : No patents granted to mathematical algorithms (software). If Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz could publish their algorithms without patent protection (interference), than so can Microsoft <i>et al</i>. It should prove possible to retrain the lawyers who become unemployed as a result of this reform to perform more useful functions in society, albeit most likely at somewhat lower levels of renumeration than those to which they have become accustomed....</p> <p>Henri</p>