Wednesday, July 27, 2011

This American Life on Patents

I caught a segment on NPR on software patents and patent trolls. While I knew most it, it was really well done and I didn't know about the protection racket angle.

"Why would a company rent an office in a tiny town in East Texas, put a nameplate on the door, and leave it completely empty for a year? The answer involves a controversial billionaire physicist in Seattle, a 40 pound cookbook, and a war waging right now, all across the software and tech industries."

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