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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 13 2012 @ 10:33 AM EDT |
Heh. So do I.
...logic was apparently not that guy's strong suit. Is it
possible that he was trying to assume a random distribution
of some sort? Or possibly defective?
Dunno though - applying formal logic to the law doesn't
always get you very far. Lawyers seem to default to a sort
of pragmatic reasoning by analogy and tend to extend law to
cope with new issues in an incremental fashion. That
approach isn't foolish - it usually is reasonably
predictable and mostly doesn't result in utter disasters.
But - it is often fairly suboptimal (software patents) and
slow and difficult to change.
Oh well - my bigger worry is that the US seems inclined to
become an exporter of intellectual property - so legislation
and diplomacy is likely to push for stronger, rather than
weaker, software patents. I'm hoping the EU and China will
be willing to curb extreme ridiculousness.
--Erwin
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