Pre-IPO Facebook has bought 750 patents from IBM to better defend against Yahoo’s lawsuit | techweekEU

and ibm has a lot more to sell ...

ffii has a nice hookup line: european parliament rushes towards soviet internet. de gaulle's vision once was a europe, reaching from the atlantic to the ural. the headline suggests it happens the other way around: from the ural to the atlantic, ideologically speaking ...

anyhow, more importantly they also brought a story which should be watched: its on software patents. it seems some have developed a new idea how to swap it over. once more.

"Talks in the Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC) are the current push for software patents. The US want to eliminate the higher standards of the European Patent Convention. The bilateral agenda is dictated by multinationals gathered in the Transatlantic Economic Business Dialogue (TABD). | McCreevy wants to legalise Software Patents via a US-EU patent treaty", ffii

the patent system is corrupt since edison appeared on the scene. a guy who must have smelled like hell as he thought to change one's clothes is not something worth to try for. | dirk hanson, the new alchemists, 1982