Software Patents are Harmful for Innovation
Channel: Zorch Central
Date: 2016-07-22

It's been known that software patents are bad. They stifle innovation, and some companies have banded together into patent amnesty organizations. Now, with No Man's Sky just on the horizon Hello Games is hit with yet another legal hurdle. This time from a company claiming to own the math super formula that powers the game's incredible procedural generation capabilities. In today's episode our cast talks about this problem, and what to do about it.

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