On Apr 8, 11:13 pm, Scott Melton <[email protected]> wrote: > Would you agree that patents and property rights greatly accelerate the rate > of innovations, accelerating the growth of a free market economy?
It all comes down to what is reasonable, as permiates so much of law and its interpretation. Most people would agree that patents on a particular (taking a random example) kind of multi-touch sensitive screen technology are reasonable and - probably - foster innovation. Equally, most of the same people would also agree - I think - that a patent banning anyone from using any kind multi-touch screen to zoom in on a picture is unreasonable and cannot be said to foster anything. So the argument is not about whether or not patents are good or bad but about when they are useful (to society in general) and when they aren't. Hence the argument: Hardware patents good/software patents bad. -- 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.
