"Edward Ned Harvey" <sh...@nedharvey.com> wrote:
> > From: Joerg Schilling [mailto:joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de]
> >
> > But in any case, patents are anachronistic. Patents have been created
> > to
> > protect inventions made by single personss against big companies 200
> > years ago.
> > Patents are now perverted by the big companies against the original
> > intention.
>
> What difference does it make if the patent is owned by an individual, or
> owned by a company which is owned by some number of individuals? All
> companies have ownership, you know.
Patents have been introduced in otder to work aginst the unbalanced relation
between producing companies and "inventors".
Aprox. 200 years ago, there have already been producing companies but they did
usually not do own research. They instead produced inventions from single
persons and patents have been neded at that time.
There is an interesting parallelity with the Copyright.
In Great Britain, the Copyright law was introduced in 1710, in Germany the
Urgeberrecht was introduced in 1837.
During the time between 1710 and 1837, Germany was leader in Book production
and there have been aprox. 520 books with 500-700 books per edition. In Germany
10x more book have been created and these books have been much cheaper than in
Great Britain. An average author did earn more money in Germany than in Great
Britain. The reason was that with Copyright law, the price of the books can be
dictated by the publisher, without it is only important to be first with a new
idea. Without Copyright, there is a need to have many authors to produce many
books in order to allow all publishers to be successful.
The efects of introducing OpenSource are contrary to the effects from
introducing Copyright law....
Jörg
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