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| Authored by: dobbo on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 12:33 PM EDT |
I would argue that lawyers are not the right people to
create laws on any specialised subject. Patents (especially
software patents) are a highly specialised area. How can
experts in the law, people who I suspect have spend their
entire adult life to get where they are, understand the
complexities of software development?
I've have spent most of my life developing software. It is
an area that has changed hugely in the thirty years I've
been doing it. Anyone who stopped doing software ten years
ago will be hopelessly out of date today, and is ten years
enough time to get on the Federal Circuit?
Make laws is a complex problem, and bias in experts is a
huge issue, as we have seen. But experts have and do come
up with some increadable solutions. Look at the engineers
on the Apollo 13 mission and how they solved the problems
to get those guys home.
The problem form my perspective is how to get a unbias group
of experts selected. If we can't solve that problem then a
group of random layman is probably the next best thing.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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