Petition: Direct the Patent Office to Cease Issuing Software Patents

Re:Petition: Direct the Patent Office to Cease Issuing Softw... by jbrowning on Friday September 23, 2011 @11:42AM (#3030364)

If somebody else is creating a petition that is coherent and gramatically correct and I will sign it immediately. A petition like this will never be taken seriously and this one actually makes the arument that software is patentable in the first sentence. I would do it but this site states that creating a similar petition will lessen the possiblity of receiving an official response so I don't want to duplicate work somebody else is already doing.

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Re:Petition: Direct the Patent Office to Cease Issuing Softw... by dbingham on Friday September 23, 2011 @11:45AM (#3030374)

I agree. What was I drunk? If someone can create a petition with coherent grammar, I fully support moving to that one. And I'll send feedback asking them to remove mine.

I've already begged them for editing ability, but I doubt we'll see that any time soon.

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Re:Petition: Direct the Patent Office to Cease Issuing Softw... by pdx on Friday September 23, 2011 @11:52AM (#3030406)

You can't edit something that people have already signed, for obvious reasons.

The best you could do is to delete it and start again. 2nd best, and probably the only option available to you, is to ignore this petition, stop promoting it, and start a new one.

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Re:Petition: Direct the Patent Office to Cease Issuing Softw... by dbingham on Friday September 23, 2011 @12:05PM (#3030473)

Yeah, I'm begging them to take it down at this point. I do think wiki editing with notifications would be one way to do edits of something people signed. But yeah, still not practical.

They did have a "review before publish" page that I accidentally clicked right through (the "Oh crap" moment). I wonder if you can share it in a limited fashion to get feedback on the language from that page?

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