Bilski And Software Patents – Good News for FOSS

<http://www.press.redhat.com/2008/11/03/bilski-and-software-patents-%e2%80%93-good-news-for-foss/>

The case presented questions relating to software patents, an issue of
great significance to the free and open source software community, and
so Red Hat filed a brief in Bilski to educate the appeals court about
FOSS and its problems with the software patents. In the new opinion, the
court cited Red Hat’s brief, but declined to settle the issue of when,
if ever, software based inventions should be patentable. Even so, the
new test in Bilski will probably limit the patentability of software.
The war is not over, but the odds of success for FOSS just got better.


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