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Jon Udell offers some good advice: learn to automate work. If you’re a computer programmer, it’s what you do. You figure out how to make the computer do the work for you.
Bunch of stuff out there on patents. Mark Cuban wrote
If you want to see more jobs created – change patent laws and My Suggestion on Patent Law, but Martin Fowler’s recent piece BLiki: Software Patent has some good history. His point that the world moved a lot slower in the 18th century and therefore patent terms in “inflation adjusted” measures should be shorter. Another point around patents is that the whole concept of software or process patents would be completely alien to the late 18th century – people patented implementations, not processes. That kind of thing might possibly fall under copyright in their mind, if the late 18th century mind could conceive of a “business process”. I doubt the term existed until the 60s. Anyway, that’s historical context for Cuban’s call to eliminate software and process patents. Where are those strict constitutionalists in the Tea Party are when it comes to real issues? You want a jobs proposal, Mark Cuban has an excellent point to ponder. Forget about regulation, at least that’s a known. The scary part is pouring your heart and soul into a company and being shut down or crippled by a stupid patent.
— Gordon Weakliem
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