Yahoo proves that Silicon Valley is no different to Hollywood

Software patents are an "elephant in the room"? Are you serious? The "tech community" is constantly criticizing, forming campaigns[1] and creating petitions[2] against them! <i>Constantly</i>.<p>You are essentially making the erroneous generalization of equating a few big companies and patent trolls with the whole tech community.<p>Hollywood, on the other hand, is pretty much dominated by the MPAA members, who bought most of the small studios of the area. There's a reason why the Sundance, ACE or South By Southwest aren't in Hollywood.<p><i>So let’s stop writing posts about how Hollywood and the Music industry is outdated, archaic and evil.</i><p>No, let's not.<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.htm...</a>, <a href="http://en.swpat.org/" rel="nofollow">http://en.swpat.org/</a>, <a href="http://www.ffii.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ffii.org/</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/petition-the-white-house-to-end-software-patents" rel="nofollow">https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/petition-the-white-house...</a>

Silicon Valley and Hollywood are not equal... dying businesses are.

How is anyone surprised that an old company that has run out of steam is trying alternative revenue models that are designed for the benefit of old out of steam companies?

This article makes no mention of how Yahoo proved anything. The article claims they (yahoo) have patents as do Amazon and Microsoft among many others, and....?

Yahoo proves that desperation breeds rather desperate moves. And make no mistake, I think Yahoo has been remarkably resilient in that any number of the gaffes and missteps they have committed could have done them in any number of times (or at least set the machine in motion full speed) yet have still remained at least tenuously in "the game". But this is bad. Very very bad.<p>Now as to how this makes SV like HWood, I don't see it at all. I worked with a stack of the studios in a past tech life (one I have no love for mind you) and the gap in terms of approach, the manner and the outlook between MPAA/RIAA/Studio management and the lion's share of tech firms is so wide as to be past the horizon line. They are simply totally different in many fundamental ways.

"Patent law like Copyright law has become completely impractical in its current form"<p>While I agree patents for software are impractical (to put it lightly), I don't follow what that has to do with copyright. They're two very different things and I haven't seen many issues with copyright for code (now, copyright extensions by lawmakers/treaties to avoid works hitting the public domain... that's another story).

Actually worse. Because software patent is pure shit.