Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Friday 07 March 2008 22:17 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Software Patents 101
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| The four pillars of intellectual property?patents, copyright, trademarks,
>>>| and trade secrets?all play roles in protecting software. No wonder this
>>>| is one of the most slippery subjects for an engineer?s lawyer.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://spectrum.ieee.org/mar08/6005
>>>
>>> Fluff.
>>>
>>
>> Worse than that, it's wrong. Software should not be patentable in the
>> US, and it certainly isn't anywhere outside Nafta and Australia.
>>
>> The current system virtually has engineers tugging their forelocks,
>> begging the lawyers for permission to do their jobs. It's insane and
>> absurd, a wonderful legacy from the USPTO.
>>
>> The chinese and indians must be chuckling all the way to the bank...
>
> They already do.
>
> Wall Street hit by surprise decline in jobs
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| US equities fell for a second consecutive week, bruised by weak economic
>| data, the falling dollar, soaring commodity prices and renewed concerns about
>| the health of global credit markets.
> `----
>
> http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto030720081316052581&referrer_id=yahoofinance
>
> When the recession/deflation (and finally depression) comes, the Americans can
> only say: "we did this to ourselves". Greed.
>
There really should be no surprise here. If you try to kill innovation
by adding lawyers to everything, obviously, creative folk will merely
create things further away from the lawyers. A few very big companies
might manage to make a few quid, but all the new stuff will happen
elsewhere, well out of range of the tax man...
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