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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 04:02 AM EDT |
When you think about it, the whole "software vs non-software" patent
distinction is a rather curious thing. Patents are about ideas. Software is made
of ideas. Of course you can patent them if you can patent ideas.
The discussion about this distinction is simply off the mark: It shouldn't be
about what is, or is not, patentable; It should be about whether patenting is
effective, does what it was designed to do, and gives society more than it takes
away in monopoly taxes.
And the real problem is: It doesn't.
Here, have a read through:
http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/againstfinal.htm
Now tell me: Are these people wrong?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 09:58 AM EDT |
But if you think that, then you are admitting that your argument is weak and/or
flawed.
Are you asking us to convince you of that?
The majority of people here are not going to refuse to believe a logical
argument because they don't like the outcome.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 11:30 AM EDT |
There's a really poor argument for patents.
Unfortunately, the economic evidence is overwhelming: except in a small number
of fields, patents *hurt* science and industry. Even if they're constitutional,
they're almost always a bad idea.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 06:43 PM EDT |
| Nuff said. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: MadTom1999 on Tuesday, June 12 2012 @ 08:07 AM EDT |
My personal view is that patents are for an old old world that passed away years
ago.
People now have access to almost unlimited information and are mostly educated
a lot better than they were in the 16thC.
I find that people who think software patents are a good idea are people who
don't understand software. Also people who think rectangles or wedges are worthy
of patents don't understand 2500 year old maths. People who think mechanical
patents are worthy don't understand mechanics.
All inventions are an existing idea multiplying other existing ideas and finding
a result in the real world that doesn't yet exist. But they already do - its
just no-ones patented it yet.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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