On Friday, August 12, 2011 8:18:37 AM UTC+2, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: > > > I did nothing of the sort, but Rainier certainly implied that connection. > Either the connection exists for both the good and the bad or it exists for > neither. It's silly to say that patents should be abolished while > conveniently leaving aside the fact that innovation is happening as if it's > irrelevant. It's not. > >
This makes no logical sense. There are many obvious negatives _directly_ associated with patent law, i.e. that open source model train app if you want a poster child. There are very few positives _directly_ associated with patent law. All you have is your usual non-sensical argument that the relative size of the US software industry vs. the rest of the world is somehow indicative of a working patent system. I'll grant you that finding clear positives is harder (a hypothetical perfect patent system would silently keep some bigcorp from muscling in on a small fry and that's rather hard to prove), but it can't very well be impossible to find such cases, or even to make a guesstimate of how much such cases there are. Given that bigcorps muscle in on smallcorp terrain all the time (Google Buzz for example), I'm going to go out on a limb and say that part isn't working as well as you might imagine. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/C1pKOsHjP3IJ. 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.
