Why is the UN doing this ? If I had to come up with a list of 10 things I think the UN should be doing, a robotics survey doesn't exactly make the cut. It might be cool, but... ?
You miss the point. The whole point of patents is to give the owner a monopoly on the technology in return for disclosure. If you take away the patent then they are either just not going to invest in r&d or try to obscure the technology so others can't grab a free ride. Are you going to spend big bucks on a technology knowing that weeks after its release your competitors are copying ? Nice if you can afford it, maybe not good business sense.
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Why is the UN doing this ? If I had to come up with a list of 10 things I think the UN should be doing, a robotics survey doesn't exactly make the cut. It might be cool, but ... ?
You miss the point. The whole point of patents is to give the owner a monopoly on the technology in return for disclosure. If you take away the patent then they are either just not going to invest in r&d or try to obscure the technology so others can't grab a free ride. Are you going to spend big bucks on a technology knowing that weeks after its release your competitors are copying ? Nice if you can afford it, maybe not good business sense.
DrTone.
So maybe migrating your entire project to Java is out of the question, but don't you wish you had its write once run anywhere capability now ?