Simon Phipps, Sun's Chief Open Source Officer, is a technology futurist and a well-known computer industry insider. At various times he has programmed mainframes, Windows and on the Web and was previously involved in OSI standards in the 80s, in the earliest commercial collaborative conferencing software in the early 90s, in introducing Java and XML to IBM, and most recently with Sun's launching Sun's blogging site, blogs.sun.com. He lives in the UK, is based at Sun's Menlo Park campus in California and can be contacted via http://www.webmink.net.
'I'm convinced that the reform that's needed is a root-and-branch reform of the very concept of the patent,' contends Simon Phipps. Today's software patents, Phipps believes, breach the social contract on which the concept of a patent is based.
Aug. 17, 2006 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 21,150 Replies: 1
