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markchristian
on May 17, 2011
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Poll: Do you support software patents?
I support it given the following sniff test: if a skilled software engineer could use an implementation of the idea the same way an ordinary would and then immediately walk back to his/her computer and implement it, it is not worthy of a patent.
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