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| Authored by: jcr6 on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 02:12 PM EDT |
There are protections specifically designed by the Founders to protect
inventors.
That being said, there is something fundamentally wrong with the
idea of
patenting software and I will fully admit that the patent system is
broken.
Shouldn't someone be able to use their inventions and profit from them
for a
specific period (17 years)?
Is there a recognized difference between
FRAND patents from others that are
not fundamentally required nor pledged to
make a standard?
There are many questions that this (woefully expensive) debate
is supposed to
answer or at least pose, if we can get past the legal
maneuvering crap that is
going on now.
(And I'm not sure if I'm trolling you
or not. Maybe just a heavy dose of irony
in both directions covers it. As
conveyed by my title. If the Wright Brothers
hadn't tied up airplane design
for so long with their patents, there would have
been many earlier
developments. But that's the way the system was
designed.)
For that matter,
the copyright system is seriously busted, too. Just ask
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| Authored by: jcr6 on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 02:14 PM EDT |
There's a classic example of a UI patent.
What was the right answer there?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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