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Re: Economics Nobel Prize winner denounces software patents

____/ [H]omer on Tuesday 16 October 2007 15:22 : \____

> Critic of Software Patents Wins Nobel Prize in Economics
> 
> .----
> |    doom writes "You've probably already heard that the Nobel Prize
> | for Economics was given to three gents who were working on advances
> | in mechanism design theory. What you may not have heard is what one
> | of those recipients was using that theory to study: 'One recent
> | subject of Professor Maskin's wide-ranging research has been on the
> | value of software patents. He determined that software was a market
> | where innovations tended to be sequential, in that they were built
> | closely on the work of predecessors, and innovators could take many
> | different paths to the same goal. In such markets, he said, patents
> | might serve as a wall that inhibited innovation rather than
> | stimulating progress.' Here's one of Maskin's papers on the
> | subject: Sequential Innovation, Patents, limitation (pdf).
> `----
> 
>
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~3/170631743/article.pl
> 
> It doesn't take a rocket scientist, or even a Nobel Prize winner, to
> understand that suppressing the practical application of knowledge is
> counter-progressive.

Greed annuls logic.

A Patent Lie

,----[ Quote ]
| Microsoft sang a very different tune in 1991. In a memo to his
| senior executives, Bill Gates wrote, "If people had understood how
| patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented,
| and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete
| standstill today." Mr. Gates worried that "some large company will
| patent some obvious thing" and use the patent to "take as much of
| our profits as they want."
`----

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/opinion/09lee.html

Bill Gates and other communists

,----[ Quote ]
| ...Thanks to Mr. Gates, we now know that an open Internet with protocols
| anyone can implement is communism...
|  
| ...Mr. Gates' secret is out now--he too was a "communist;" he, too,
| recognized that software patents were harmful-until Microsoft
| became one of these giants...
`---- 

http://news.com.com/Bill+Gates+and+other+communists/2010-1071_3-5576230.html?part=rss&tag=5575731&subj=news.1071.20

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