On 11 Jun 2007 08:16:46 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clem Clarke) wrote: >All good ideas come from a single individual,
What's his name? >and by constantly putting roadblocks in their paths, progress stops. Lots of good ideas have been created by teams. And lots of patents and copy rites are owned by companies who have created this environment, or who have purchased them. >Patents and copyrights mean that people cannot "stand on the shoulders" >of those who went in front of them. Ahh, you mean like Sir. Isaac Newton? That's a bad thing? We need to look at the real world of today, not of yesterday. Right now, do patents (primarily owned by big corporations - IBM is huge here), help the innovative individual more than they hurt the innovative individual? I suspect they hurt more - and this trend is going to continue. It's not obvious what is needed here though. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
