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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 12 2012 @ 11:31 AM EDT |
That's what will actually happen to the software industry. Linux won't be
destroyed, it'll just move entirely to China.
Any country with software patents will wreck its *domestic* software industry,
and everyday people in places like the US will import "black market"
software from countries which haven't wrecked their industries.
Be assured, China is not going to copy the insane behavior of lawyers and courts
in the US and Europe when it comes to patents.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: PJ on Tuesday, June 12 2012 @ 11:34 AM EDT |
And in case it's not clear why FOSS and software
patents are inimical and can't coexist, think
about who has patents. Is it the new guy with
innovation on his mind or is it the incumbents?
I attended a conference once and there was a
gaggle of Microsoft employees there, and one of
them frankly said something like this: We have
more patents than anyone in FOSS, so all we have
to do is keep suing until they have none left and
we still have more.
Is that the purpose of patents, by the way, to
crush the new guys? If not, think about the reality
of what that lawyer said, because it's true. And
the new guys never have the stockpile. Never. It
is the incumbents, and they fight to win, without
regard to the public interest. So it's up to
others, like yourself, who don't make a bundle from
patents, but have a voice to at least think seriously
about what matters most -- rewarding software developers
with double monopoly protectiong, copyright and
patent, and strengthening the old guard at the expense
of the new or sticking to reality, which is math
is not an invention and it never will be, so leaving
it free for all to use freely will result in more
innovation than cutting it off and letting someone
own mathematics.
To say it out loud is to know the answer.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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