Battleangel

Also once said that “640 K ought to be enough for anybody” .. even if that is disputed. Most likely, in 10 years, immaterial law will be revised. Or as Ars Technica points out …

Ars Technica - Gates is enthusiastic about the prospect of local Asian competition tightening up IP protection, but he should be careful. India and China are graduating a lot more engineers and programmers than the US, and those guys will be filing for a ton of patents that they will expect the West to respect. The very same questionable patents on software and “business methods” that companies like Microsoft are pushing right now could come back to bite them in a decade, when the Chinese are racking such patents up by the truckload and are either refusing to share or are demanding exorbitant licensing fees. At that point, we may all have the ironic pleasure of watching the West do and about face and argue that such patents are bad for innovation.