Help Lobby Washington To Protect Open Source from Software Patents - First
Steps
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| The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and
| Intellectual Property is making another attempt to reform patent law.
| I need your help to lobby them to add protection from software patent
| attacks for Open Source software and Open Standards.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2007/2/27/15365
Related:
Patenting Life
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| You, or someone you love, may die because of a gene patent that should
| never have been granted in the first place. Sound far-fetched?
| Unfortunately, it's only too real.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/13/opinion/13crichton.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Features: Open-Source Software: Who Needs Intellectual Property?
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| The market for open-source software--uncopyrighted, freely
| reproducible computer programs--is not well understood by economists.
| A central source of surprise is that innovation can thrive in a
| market without traditional intellectual property (IP). But as we
| argued in a 2005 unpublished paper, "Perfectly Competitive Innovation,"
| as a matter of theory there is no reason to believe that monopoly
| power through IP is needed for innovation. The market for
| open-source software is the poster child for this perspective.
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| First, understand that the market for open-source software is a
| classic example of a competitive market. It is characterized by
| the voluntary renunciation of copyright and patent. Buyers are
| entitled to make their own copies, modified or not, and sell them.
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http://www.fee.org/publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=6608
No trust in intellectual property
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| This is why I've argued before that open source is hugely amenable to
| trust. You can see the code. You know exactly what I have before
| you try to engage with me as a partner, customer, or competitor.
| And just because you can see what I have doesn't mean you
| necessarily have the right (or, at least, the right as you would
| prefer to have it) to use that software. Absolute transparency
| while still retaining the ability to profit.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/02/no_trust_in_int.html
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