On: White House responds to Patent Petition

[jkeel]

Yep. It makes me wonder if they would pay more attention if maybe a patent troll came after them (I know, I know... it won't happen). They are using Drupal for whitehouse.gov and I'm sure other open source tech as well. There's got to be something in there a patent troll could claim. Maybe the petition software itself. Someone's got to have a patent on allowing people to submit a post and allowing people to vote on it. Hmm...

[onwardly → jkeel]

I absolutely love this idea. Its easy to shrug something off when it doesn't affect you. Eating your own dogfood is an entirely different matter.

[jasongullickson → jkeel]

Maybe the petition software itself. Someone's got to have a patent on allowing people to submit a post and allowing people to vote on it.

Prior art?

http://edison.rutgers.edu/vote.htm

[gcb → jkeel]

1. patent troll sues them because drupal inflicts on the awesome-html© patent. 2. white house pays 3. white house sues we-use-open-source-corp for selling them a website project with patent problems