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| Authored by: Tufty on Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 10:35 AM EDT |
In the case we are watching both Sun and then Oracle failed to compete, they had
no product in the market place. Which phone did I just upgrade to, Sun/Oracle or
Android? Well, there was no S/O phone that I could even contemplate. They are
not protecting their market or product.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 11:25 AM EDT |
>There is a big difference between protecting your
> own (real and specific)
> inventions and [mis-using the patent system].
There may be a difference, and then again, there may not.
Why should the government grant a monopoly to an inventor? The U.S.
Constitution says it should do so _only_ "to promote the Progress of
Science and useful Arts". Patents that do not promote such progress are an
unconstitutional grant of monopoly power by the state. It's pretty clear that
there's been a whole lot of patenting going on throughout U.S. history, in all
sorts of fields, that has not helped but hindered progress.
"Protecting inventions", by which I assume you mean protecting the
inventor's revenue stream, for the sake of having "protection" is just
as unconscionable as all the other misuses of the patent system. The real
question is which patents help and which hinder progrees. History seems pretty
clear; patents hinder more than they help.
The patent system needs to be radically scaled back to allow only those,
seemingly rare, cases where it can be proved that a patent would promote
progress.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 11:55 AM EDT |
With remarks like his, you KNOW that things will get much,
much worse. Anybody that uses the excuse that it has always
been that way has no intention of accepting that the "bad"
behaviour really is bad and needs to be changed.
To me the a sign of true intellegence and civil behaviour
is when someone recgonizes bad behaviour and actually
changes it for the better.
I consider greedy people neither intellegent nor civil.
Greedy people are the worst kind of living creature because
they act to fullfill all their own selfish desires, not
needs, but desires, while willfully ignoring the effects
of their greedy behaviour on others as individuals and on society as a whole. I
think that greedy people are just as
heinous as murderers, theives, and rapists; they are no different.
One can be a capitalist without being greedy.
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