This morning's papers also brought this:
"A survey of more than 35,000 Florida Panhandle registered voters conducted
by the Republican Leadership Council found that 2,380 Bush supporters didn't
vote in this election, citing the errant call."
A straight extrapolation from this would suggest Bush
I do not want to get into a debate on the morality of patents - there
is plenty of that in the Armchair archive. On the economics here are
some notes and references written for another purpose which may be of
interest.
Patents can *reduce* investment in RD in *theory* as well as in
The League for Programming Freedom has a dated bibliography relevant to software
patents:
http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Links/prep.ai.mit.edu/index
Some of the more relevant entries include:
On the complex economics of patent scope
by Robert P. Merges and Richard R. Nelson
Columbia Law Review, May
I found a number of anti-patent quotes posted by Gordon Irlam in the
Coalition for Networked Information mail archive
at http://www.cni.org/Hforums/cni-copyright/1994-04/0648.html.
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