At 07:26 PM 2/27/01 -0800, T.S. Lim wrote:
>Consider the following excerpts from the ASA Ethical Guidelines for
>Statistical Practice
>(http://www.amstat.org/profession/ethicalstatistics.html). My naive
>interpretation is that the ASA may endorse patenting statistical
>innovations or making them proprietary. What's your interpretation?
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>Make new statistical knowledge widely available, in order to provide
>benefits to society at large beyond your own scope of
>applications. Statistical methods may be broadly applicable to many
>classes of problem or application. (Statistical innovators may well be
>entitled to monetary or other rewards for their writings, software, or
>research results.)
>
>Make new statistical knowledge widely available in order to benefit
>society at large. (Those who have funded the development of new
>statistical innovations are entitled to monetary and other rewards for
>their resulting products, software, or research results.)
>===
i don't see that the above paragraphs mean necessarily ... patents ... even
in the case of software, is it patented or copyrighted?
of course, i don't see anything above that excludes the notion of patents
either
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