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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 03:47 PM EDT |
Quite often it takes non-trivial resources (whether you count in time, money
or both) in order to resolve an ages old math problem. Do you believe what
Einstein did with regards E=MC2 was trivial in resources?
Such
a solution usually benefits humanity in many, many ways.
The existing Law
is: Math is not patentable!
Sorry, just because you spend non-trivial
resources on something doesn't automatically mean you should be granted a
patent.
If you want someone to say "you deserve a software patent" I
think you've come to the wrong place. You really should visit Gene Quinn and
ask him if you deserve a patent.
Most that visit Groklaw and voice an
opinion on software patents are almost all in agreement that software patents
should not exist.
RAS[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 05:32 PM EDT |
How to make money off of it...
But that isn't a question of inventiveness, or your ability to copyright or
patent. What you have is the classic question of "what business model fits
my product?"
Software has become a commodity (and more so every day), that is rapidly losing
value. That is due to the basic nature of it... As has been discussed here many
times, all software derives from that which came before. When the pool was
smaller, there was value in individual apps and utilities, and a market sprang
up. But as more software is written and the pool grows, multiple options appear
for any given task, and the value of any particular app has to be weighed
against the competitors. Then instead of single apps, you see bundles, as
developers try to add value back. But the pool continues to grow, and the
bundles get bigger as the value of any given piece gets lower.
Patents don't solve your problem either, because the bottom line is, in two
years there will be several alternative methods of doing the same thing and the
more alternatives there are, the less resources are needed for the next
alternative to appear. So in five years, a new and improved version will have
made yours obsolete.
The only way that your patent helps then is if you do exactly what is causing
the current problems: become a troll and try to abuse the ridiculously long life
of your patent to lock people into perpetual license fees in a field where
things become old in months and obsolete in three years.
No, the real issue is that computers and the internet have evolved into an
environment that throws old business models out the window, but the new models
haven't yet established themselves. Using patents to try and force the old
models onto the new environment is no solution - its simply adding to the
problem.
So, sorry, I don't have an answer to your question, but I know that trying to
bend an obsolete and currently broken model to fit the new paradigm isn't it.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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