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| Authored by: jbb on Saturday, May 11 2013 @ 04:20 PM EDT |
So the whole American economic dream blueprint of
America being the brains and having the rest of the world the lowly paid
manufacturers has just come crashing down.
This is wrong in many
ways. You are still linking a few bad apples with the entire American society.
It is like saying the Somali dream blueprint is based on actual
piracy on the high seas. Second, you are still implying that draconian patent
and copyright laws are essential in order to make money from brainpower which is
the exact opposite of the truth. Those laws hurt people doing creative work and
reward people who are either gaming the system (patent Trolls) or collecting
rents (corporations who have amassed vast hoards of essential perpetual
copyrights).
What is good for the modern-day robber barons is not
good for the American people or for rest of the economy.
It is the very laws you
are trumpeting that are causing paid brainwork in the US to come crashing
down.
From Plato's description of the cause of the fall of
Atlantis:
... when the divine portion began to fade away,
and became diluted
too often with the mortal admixture, and the human nature
got the
upper hand, they then, being unable to bear their fortune, behaved
unseemly, and to him who had an eye to see, grew visibly debased,
for they
were losing their precious gifts; but to those who had no
eye to see the true
happiness, they appeared glorious and blessed
at the very time when they were
full of avarice and unrighteous power.
---
Our job
is to remind ourselves that there are more contexts
than the one we’re in now — the one that we think is reality.
-- Alan Kay [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 17 2013 @ 03:41 PM EDT |
Yes, all software patents are invalid.
No, this does NOT prevent the "brains of the world" business model
from working -- in fact it HELPS. Software is protected by copyright, and
frequently by trade secrets.
Software is HARMED by invalid software patents, and many software development
companies have actually moved abroad because of patents. Getting rid of invalid
software patents will HELP the US software industry.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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