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Old 08-30-2010
Paul Allen's Complaint Against the World, as text
So, do you hate software patents yet, now that you've read about Paul Allen's patent infringement lawsuit against the world and his dog?
I think it ought to inspire you, reading Allen's complaint [PDF], that it might get you to the tipping point, or at least help you to understand why most engineers do hate software patents, because they are a drain on the economy and a hindrance to innovation. So we did Allen's complaint as text, sort of as Exhibit A, shall we say, illustrating the point.
But if you can figure out precisely what this litigation is about from this complaint, what the defendants are alleged to have done wrong, you are doing better than I am. It's unbelievably vague.
So are the patents. What is it that these patents do? What's the process or method? I mean, "Alerting Users to Items of Current Interest", a patent on a system for recommending things that might interest you based on your interest in something else? How's this for prior art? When I go to the local hamburger joint, they ask me if I want fries with my burger.

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Pod::Perldoc::ToMan(3pm)				 Perl Programmers Reference Guide				  Pod::Perldoc::ToMan(3pm)

NAME

       Pod::Perldoc::ToMan - let Perldoc render Pod as man pages

SYNOPSIS

	 perldoc -o man Some::Modulename

DESCRIPTION

       This is a "plug-in" class that allows Perldoc to use Pod::Man and "groff" for reading Pod pages.

       The following options are supported:  center, date, fixed, fixedbold, fixeditalic, fixedbolditalic, quotes, release, section

       (Those options are explained in Pod::Man.)

       For example:

	 perldoc -o man -w center:Pod Some::Modulename

CAVEAT

       This module may change to use a different pod-to-nroff formatter class in the future, and this may change what options are supported.

SEE ALSO

       Pod::Man, Pod::Perldoc, Pod::Perldoc::ToNroff

COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS

       Copyright (c) 2011 brian d foy. All rights reserved.

       Copyright (c) 2002,3,4 Sean M. Burke.  All rights reserved.

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of
       merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

AUTHOR

       Current maintainer: Mark Allen "<mallen@cpan.org>"

       Past contributions from: brian d foy "<bdfoy@cpan.org>" Adriano R. Ferreira "<ferreira@cpan.org>", Sean M. Burke "<sburke@cpan.org>"

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