Here is an excellent comment attached to a recent story posted on Slashdot: So why are people — especially those in the industry — opposed to software patents? It’s not because they don’t think software is inventive. It’s because they think that the patents are a drag on the industry. […]
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Preamble Explanation of standard formats and protocols: JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight1 data-interchange format with language bindings for C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, TCL and many others. JSON-RPC is a simple remote procedure call protocol similar to XML-RPC although it uses the lightweight JSON format instead of […]