-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Lan Barnes wrote: > But without some protection, the corporations would simply steal every > idea, book and song outright, and the actual creative person would be, at > best, an economic wage slave.
But isn't this what the corporations do anyway? I can not name a single individual person who has ever directly made money from a patent or who owns a patent. I know a few (and only a few) people whose companies own the patents that resulted from their creative work. But the best the creative person can hope for is a good salary. How much does it cost to get a patent these days? Something like $10k isn't it? How is the actual creative person ever going to come up with that? Plus the funds needed to create the invention in the first place. And then he has to find a way to license the patent to others or come up with the money to build and sell the product himself. And hope it is sucessfull or he is ruined. The patent system is far out of the reach of the actual creative people. I think they would be better off without it. - -- Tracy R Reed http://ultraviolet.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFX4Kz9PIYKZYVAq0RAkq2AKCcyxzUP4S8Mc1hyG49qadTZy7beQCghwdS TAG0AxDjjrg4aFRxAXBmM5E= =jmzR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
