In order to effectively copy technology like patents, you need to invest about nearly the same amount of R&D as the first guy, and the first guy has a large advantage just by being the first guy.
The patent system isn't going to be thrown out because people find it inconvenient. In fact, it's going to be kept because those inconveniences keep the system working.
What's your definition of working? Unless Adding tens of billions of dollars of costs for marginal or non-existent consumer benefit is your definition of working, the current system doesn't work. See Boldrin and Levine "Against Intellectual Monopoly"
Or reduce the patent lifetime considerably, instead of extending it. Two or three years should be plenty or even better one year past the first sale, or five years after the filing date.. The original span of 14 years was enough time to start production, for which you needed to train a set of mechanics 7 years to get a working prototype, and then another 7 years to train the final assemblers. Today it's unusual for a production cycle to be longer than 18 months.
Game works fine in browser, but as soon as it hits that c drive and you start it yourself, oh boy.
And apparently he was at some code-athon recently, which as a huge let down i hear. (not sure myself though)
Odd, I had the opposite issue. I couldn't get it to run at all in the browser. I only was able to play after I downloaded an alpha copy to/home/
The difference is that there is nothing preventing someone from saying, hey by they way this supercharger just so happens to fit onto a Ford Mustang engine. There's no reason why these developers would be limited to the two option of not releasing the game or releasing is as a "genuine accessory." The third option is just to market it as X-box compatible. Trademarks aren't the problem. The problem lies the DRM that Microsoft uses on their system, and DMCA which outlaws circumvention of the technology, even if there is no copyright violation with that specific circumvention. (Techically it's illegal for me to watch a dvd I just bought or rented on this computer because I use decss rather than a program with an official key.) Theoretically these developers could rely on hacked X-boxes or have an on disk circumvention of the signing requirements for game, but the legal fees would be far fallout is going to scare anybody sane away from trying to make a commercial project based on circumventing M$ DRM.
No, you can't distribute it as a Genuine Ford Mustang accessory. As in, using their trademarks. Just like you can't distribute your sex game for Kinect, because you can't use their trademarks and libraries.
Well, according to George W. Bush the Constitution is just a God Damned piece of paper. I don't think disregard of the Constitution takes political sides.
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In order to effectively copy technology like patents, you need to invest about nearly the same amount of R&D as the first guy, and the first guy has a large advantage just by being the first guy.
The patent system isn't going to be thrown out because people find it inconvenient. In fact, it's going to be kept because those inconveniences keep the system working.
What's your definition of working? Unless Adding tens of billions of dollars of costs for marginal or non-existent consumer benefit is your definition of working, the current system doesn't work. See Boldrin and Levine "Against Intellectual Monopoly"
Or reduce the patent lifetime considerably, instead of extending it. Two or three years should be plenty or even better one year past the first sale, or five years after the filing date.. The original span of 14 years was enough time to start production, for which you needed to train a set of mechanics 7 years to get a working prototype, and then another 7 years to train the final assemblers. Today it's unusual for a production cycle to be longer than 18 months.
Game works fine in browser, but as soon as it hits that c drive and you start it yourself, oh boy. And apparently he was at some code-athon recently, which as a huge let down i hear. (not sure myself though)
Odd, I had the opposite issue. I couldn't get it to run at all in the browser. I only was able to play after I downloaded an alpha copy to /home/
No, you can't distribute it as a Genuine Ford Mustang accessory. As in, using their trademarks. Just like you can't distribute your sex game for Kinect, because you can't use their trademarks and libraries.
Well, according to George W. Bush the Constitution is just a God Damned piece of paper. I don't think disregard of the Constitution takes political sides.
Technically, it's four pieces of paper.