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Why IP Laws Are Blocking Innovation
DrJimbo passes along this quote from Groklaw:
"The White House is asking us to give them ideas on what is blocking innovation in America. I thought I'd give them an honest answer. Here it is: Current intellectual property laws are blocking innovation. President Obama just set a goal of wireless access for everyone in the US, saying it will spark innovation. But that's only true if people are allowed to actually do innovative things once they are online. You have to choose. You can prop up old business models with overbearing intellectual property laws that hit innovators on the head whenever they stick their heads up from the ground; or you can have innovation. You can't have both. And right now, the balance is away from innovation."
Don't forget that Microsoft wants to reform our patents to be "First to file", putting even more shackles on innovation. You fail to patent, or file slowly? That's okay! We will patent for you, and then sue you for violating our patent!
Why is it OK to block innovation and commerce with environmental laws, racial preference laws, licensing laws, union preference laws, unreasonable liability laws, international trade laws, and thousands upon thousands of regulations? But somehow it's not OK to block the same innovation with IP laws?
I wonder if people really want innovation or if this is just a way to justify taking IP from the people who create(d) it.
I have been caught, bitch. The difference is that I don't fucking whine about how what I did shouldn't be against the law. The problem is not the law because NO ONE NEEDS TO SMOKE POT. Are you done making a fucking ass out of yourself, shithead?
Grow the fuck up.