Lan Barnes wrote:
All patents or all SW patents?
All.
I could be persuaded that there is some value, but the term would have
to be made *very* short--2 years or less. If you can't make a business
with the head start, you shouldn't be able to hold on to the idea. Let
someone else with more business acumen have a shot.
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.
Don't conflate copyright and patents. They are different things
protecting different arenas.
Yes, anyone could steal anyone else's work. How is that different from
the current regime? Winning a patent litigation takes more money than
most people have available to fight a corporation.
-a
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