Linux implementations impinge on 235+ Windows patents!? Of course, as this article points out, it also indicates the stupidity of granting patents to software in the first place. Here is the original piece from the Fortune magzine. It is time that, in true Brad deLong-ian style, we called for “Abolish software patents! Abolish them now!”. By the way, he recently wrote how it does not make sense economically, to make information goods “excludable”.
