On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Scott Melton <[email protected]>wrote:
> Not knowing much about anyone making the decisions(other than they are > human, most of them), simply greedy, applied to this complex problem, would > be an over simplification. A component of the problem? Sure. > > Assuming they are more knowledgeable about patent law than I am is a given. > I can only hope that the process involves experts in the field they are > ruling over with some system of checks and balances. A false hope maybe. If > so then that is part of the process that is broken. > > The free market economic model is a lousy one, but it is the best by far. That sentence doesn't make sense. The very purpose of patent law is to reduce freedom in the market. A patent is a virtual monopoly, reducing manufacturing competition and process efficiency. > Government intrusion on this model is a rarely helpful yet necessary > weevil. Caution should be to limit it where ever possible. > > > > > > Opinion sent from my ASS phone. > > --- On *Thu, 4/8/10, Mark Volkmann <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: Mark Volkmann <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [The Java Posse] Software Patents and Joe bashing > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010, 10:49 AM > > > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Scott Melton > <[email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> >> In a free and open society it is easy to find fault in complicated >> systems, just as it is easy to have a bias, pick sides and misrepresent the >> facts. One example in this thread, I may be wrong, but I think there is good >> reason for simplifying the patent granting process from who invented it >> first(which can be very difficult and costly to prove) to who filed first. >> Is the change a choice between the lesser of two weavels? Certainly. >> Infinitely more knowledgeable people than I made the decision. I will side >> with them until I become a patent lawyer or become so well informed that I >> can pass judgment on this complicated system. > > > Why do you assume the people responsible for our current patent system are > more knowledgeable than you rather than simply more greedy? > > -- > R. Mark Volkmann > Object Computing, Inc. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- Viktor Klang | "A complex system that works is invariably | found to have evolved from a simple system | that worked." - John Gall Akka - the Actor Kernel: Akkasource.org Twttr: twitter.com/viktorklang -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
