suckmysav came up with this when s/he headbutted the keyboard a moment ago
in comp.os.linux.advocacy:
> On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:45:34 +0000, Jim wrote:
>
>> Roy Schestowitz came up with this when s/he headbutted the keyboard a
moment
>> ago in comp.os.linux.advocacy:
>>
>>> Indonesia Stops Sharing Avian Virus Samples
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | "Indonesia has apparently decided to play the IP game, with the
world's
>>> | health at stake.... can't we come up with some GPL'ish license to
>>> | free any product based on this data?"
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/08/1743249&from=rss
>>>
>>> FAA Attempts to Loosen Grip on Abandoned Vintage Aircraft Data
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | "...existing laws restricted FAA's ability to release such data
because
>>> | it was deemed to be intellectual property even though the owner of
>>> | record had long since ceased to exist. This proposed legislation
>>> | will go a long way toward helping owners and mechanics gather the
>>> | information they need to maintain these historic aircraft."
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/08/1743249&from=rss
>>>
>>>
>>> Related:
>>>
>>> Salt and Software
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | This broad ruling is being exploited by some to force developing
nations
>> to
>>> | add stringent controls and to enforce many controversial requirements.
>> [1]
>>> | [2] This includes patent clauses that prevent and impede the
manufacture
>>> | of generic AIDS/cancer/malaria medications. This despite the fact that
>>> | generics are recognized as an essential tool in preventing and
>> controlling
>>> | the effect of these crippling diseases and disastrous epidemics. [1,
2,
>> 3].
>>> | Appalling. But let us not digress.
>>> |
>>> | [...]
>>> |
>>> | Because of TRIPS, you may now be in infringement of this patent. Are
>>> | you using a hash table in your code? You may now be in infringement
>>> | of this patent.
>>> |
>>> | It is sad that we as developers have to worry about these issues. We
>>> | are not lawyers or legislators and share no overwhelming desire to
>>> | be involved in those fields. One does not need accreditation in patent
>>> | law to realize that these too-loosely defined laws can be exploited
>>> | by some megacorporations to impinge upon the ablity of others to
>>> | compete with them. The vast majority of our corporations in
>>> | developing nations are small to medium sized. We simply cannot
>>> | afford the battalions of lobbyists and lawyers and legal costs
>>> | associated with G8 style campaigns.
>>> |
>>> | So. Shouldn't our legislators in developing nations be questioning
>>> | these laws? How is it in the interests of our populations, our
>>> | businesses, our industries and our economies, to be beholden to
>>> | these laws? I believe many of our non-monopolist counterparts in
>>> | G8 nations share our concerns.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.localfoss.org/Salt_And_Software
>>>
>>>
>>> Scrooge and intellectual property rights
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | A medical prize fund could improve the financing of drug
>>> | innovations
>>> |
>>> | At Christmas, we traditionally retell Dickens's story of Scrooge,
>>> | who cared more for money than for his fellow human beings. What
>>> | would we think of a Scrooge who could cure diseases that blighted
>>> | thousands of people's lives but did not do so? Clearly, we would
>>> | be horrified. But this has increasingly been happening in the name
>>> | of economics, under the innocent sounding guise of "intellectual
>>> | property rights."
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/333/7582/1279
>>
>> To be honest, I can't see a problem with a country's government saying to
a
>> patent troll company "Fuck you, you're not trading here" and allowing
local
>> business to innovate their own versions of the patented technology and
>> trade within that country without fear of getting sued - after all, the
>> patent troll has no market where he's not allowed to trade, right?
>>
>> Right?
>
> Unfortunately, no. What will happen then is the Patent Troller will go
> whining to the Guvmint and the Guvmint will very quickly explain to them
> that if they go ahead with thier plans to "steal the intellectual property
> of U.S. corporate citizens" then they will be unable to trade with ANY
> U.S. companies.
Not a problem for the Chinese - they buy most of their American tech from
French shell companies. On saying that, they make most of it themselves
anyway, so still no big loss for them.
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