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Apr 19 2004 on poll Your opinion about software patents? |
/Perhaps software patents could be a good thing if they were valid for 6 months? no more than a year I think. It could well be easier to achive this than stop patents altogether, or if not, is still available to lobby for if patents become enforced./
Nice pipe dream there. I only say that, for M$ would never allow it to happen. If you have more money than they do, then maybe you may talk about lobbying for it, for until you do, they will always out lobby you.
In a perfect world, it would be nice, but we do not live in a perfect world. As far as I am concerned, software should not be patented. Since it is not a physical hard object, but rather is something that is written, it should fall under the copyright laws instead. Since there is an expiration date to copyrights, M$ decided upon patents instead. After 75 years, copyrights expire. Well, it used to be that way the last time I checked, which was some time ago. |
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Apr 16 2004 on poll Your opinion about software patents? |
At one time they used to be a good thing in the U.S., but then greed and slick lawyers got involved then it got out of hand. If you had an idea, and someone else came along trying to steal your idea, the patent stopped them from doing that, but then the patent was only so you would have time to actually get your product to market and make something, then after awhile it would expire and then be public domain.
But slick lawyers and greedy companies now renew them, and nothing seems to go to public domain anymore. Once that started happening, patents became a big stick to beat up anyone not holding one. They only benefit lawyers anymore, for they get the bucks to beat everybody up, and extort the company holding them, to do it. |
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