On Mon, May 30, 2005 11:57:50 AM -0400, Daniel Carrera
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> Eric Hines wrote:
>
> >Actually, the concept of patents and copyrights is a good one
>
> I'd agree about copyrights, but not patents. I think that getting a
> monopoly on an IDEA is ridiculous.
>
Maybe you meant _software_ or _algorithm_ _only_ patents, not all
possible patents in every field, didn't you?
> I've never seen any evidence that granting a monopoly over an idea
> (patents) spur innovation.
Patents were born as monopolies over real _inventions_, not ideas. You
could patent a physical, working prototype of bulb lamps or
antigravity engines, and the process to build them. New, useful,
physical things, not their mere ideas. The money, time and stress
to concretely _build_ for mass production something innovative don't
come for free.
Today the concept is wildly and frequently abused, no doubt, but
that's no reason to negate its validity, when applied properly, is it?
Ciao,
Marco
--
Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server mclink.it
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Cyberspace means the end of our species ... because it means the end
of innovation. This idea that the whole world is wired together is
mass death.... And believe me, it'll be fast.
-- Michael Crichton, "The Lost World"
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