{"id":2143,"date":"2003-09-23T09:15:44","date_gmt":"2003-09-23T12:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=590"},"modified":"2003-09-23T09:15:44","modified_gmt":"2003-09-23T12:15:44","slug":"software-patents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2003\/09\/23\/software-patents\/","title":{"rendered":"Software Patents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While running madly about to get back to where I was before the last trip (perhaps I should even say the last <i>three<\/i> trips) I chanced upon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbray.org\/ongoing\/When\/200x\/2003\/09\/15\/SWPatents\">Tim Bray&#8217;s comments on software patents<\/a>. This is certainly the best article on the subject to come along for years. Highly recommended.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A cynic would say it&#8217;s a self-perpetuating system whose costs greatly outweigh its benefits, and that we&#8217;re hopelessly stuck in it. But then, I&#8217;m a cynic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While running madly about to get back to where I was before the last trip (perhaps I should even say the last three trips) I chanced upon Tim Bray&#8217;s comments on software patents. This is certainly the best article on the subject to come along for years. Highly recommended. A cynic would say it&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-yz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}