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OK, you're offended by the word "standard." I get that. If I said that criminal defendants' "standard" tactic is to stall and hope the witnesses forget about it (I don't know if that's true, actually), you would be offended because really poor ones can't get out on bail? I wouldn't say "too bad for them." The legal system is well-known to be stacked against poor people on almost every level, and even Charles Dickens was not the first to write about it.

This is Hacker News, not Patent Law 101. I'm not obligated to explain every aspect of the system in a comment.

I gather you think there's something new or unique in your comments about poor defendants. There is not. People have been saying it since the 90s. You are preaching to the already-converted.

Finally, if you read my paper on SSRN (which I've cited here many times), you'd see that "programmers' standard toolbox of techniques" is what I called out as something missing from the law.

That paper got cited in the Checkpoint amicus brief to SCOTUS in the CLS Bank case. That's an example of doing "something" but I will admit it's not much.

If you really wanted to do more, you'd start or join a political movement to "abolish software patents." There already are such organizations.



And lastly: I'm done here. If you want the last word, go ahead and have it.




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