"Otherwise we'll end up stealing and selling each other idea's all the time"

I hope I'm being trolled! Begging the question that ideas are indeed
property, who are we selling them to if they're available free?

On 13 September 2010 06:34, Jan Goyvaerts <[email protected]> wrote:

> If applied with good sense, I think the patents even are a necessity.
> Otherwise we'll end up stealing and selling each other idea's all the time.
> That would be a funny sight... :-)
>
> However, patenting the execution of bytecode ... has somebody already
> patenting a device to push buttons to enter data into a computer ?
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 17:39, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> How hard is it to understand patent law, folks?
>>
>> What you're suggesting won't change anything. Not one iota. You can re-
>> invent everything as far as I care. It's patent law. What you're
>> suggesting would help avoid any lawsuits that revolve around trademark
>> law. The lawsuit oracle opened against google did not invoke any part
>> of trademark law.
>>
>> On Sep 12, 5:41 am, Miroslav Pokorny <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > So what happens if one rewrites all references in some application
>> replacing
>> > java and javax. to somethingelse and somethingelse respectively at
>> compile
>> > time. Naturally harmony itself which is a part of the deployment
>> platform
>> > will have also had its packages similar "fixed". Does this make a
>> difference
>> > in the above argument  ?
>> >
>> > PS. lets pretend all strings with java etc in them used by reflection
>> are
>> > also fixed.
>>
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