There is no need for elaborate laws to address the issue of patents for software and business methods. Nor a lawyer witch hunt. Nor some giant protection scheme like those mentioned in other comments. The Constitution…
Implement vague and capricious laws that criminalize large swaths of the target population. Enforce them only against your enemies and use the threat of prosecution to eliminate dissent.
You might have confused "geographic" with "geologic". The use of GIS for meteorology is probably just a little younger than GIS itself.
There is no need for elaborate laws to address the issue of patents for software and business methods. Nor a lawyer witch hunt. Nor some giant protection scheme like those mentioned in other comments. The Constitution…
Implement vague and capricious laws that criminalize large swaths of the target population. Enforce them only against your enemies and use the threat of prosecution to eliminate dissent.
You might have confused "geographic" with "geologic". The use of GIS for meteorology is probably just a little younger than GIS itself.