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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 10:52 AM EDT |
Well, we don't allow design patents on Automobiles or Fashion. They don't
get copyright in these industries either, just Trademark. I think they can
patent certain car parts, but not on the look or API -- er, steering wheel &
pedals, etc.
I always wonder why there's so much new and interesting
designs for all the cars and clothes if they can't patent and copyright them...
Could it be that they have to innovate to create NEW stuff?
So, there's
actually no hypothetical DANGER WILL ROBINSON event to worry about if we
alleviate the patent law burden on software devs. It's just a bunch of lawyers
that don't get paid, they can find other laws to play with -- Oh, that's who
makes the laws you say? Crap...
Here, watch this
TED talk.
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| Authored by: nsomos on Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 12:23 PM EDT |
Your post would have been more effective if you had substituted
something for "Nobel prize winning mathematicians".
There is NO Nobel prize in the field of mathematics.
That being said, there is a handful of Nobel prize
winners who also happen to be mathematicians.
1950: Bertrand Russell (literature)
1954: Max Born, Walther Bothe (physics)
1972: Kenneth Arrow (economics)
1994: John Forbes Nash (economics)
2003: Clive W. J. Granger (economics)
2005: Robert J. Autmann, Thomas C. Schelling (economics)
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 04:29 PM EDT |
I'm a bit skeptical here. See...many of my friends were
mathematicians and many of them, being addicted to eating,
are now either programmers or quants. I see that argument
as being just as applicable to the book industry and
copyright. I suspect that there is a lot of 'nasty' math
that doesn't get done because there is no profit motive.
Frankly, even if you dump copyright protection, a lot of
people will still publish books. Just...fewer.
That said, the patentability of simple logic is a tad
questionable.
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