amicus_curious wrote: > You are wrong. Patents are simply a means to protect the ideas of > innovators from wanton copycatting by others. Those who can think of new > things to do need to be rewarded or else we will be faced with a steep > decline in technological progress. How many copies of commercial > applications do we really need?
sorry to say, that was true in 1890, but is not true any more. in that time a patent lasted 5 years. that was reasonable. today a patent is a "you must not think about this" paper. i know 'cause i own such paper. patents are just a good way for layers to make a good living by ideas of others. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
