Maybe this will teach software companies to put less pressure overworked programmers trying desperately to meet unrealistic deadlines. They don't realize that people don't work well when they don't have time to do their jobs properly. Many of these companies will never learn their lesson, if you doubt me, look at he number of known security holes in a certain operating system fittingly named after a hole in a wall.
As soon as one company starts giving away money to anyone with spare CPU power, many others companies with similar claims will spring up overnight. Soon there will be so many that people will begin mass mailing viruses or spying programs disguised as programs that pay you. Most people would say that if someone is dumb enough to open attachments in mail from someone thay do not know, they deserve to be spied on and have their important files or even their entire hard drive erased, but this might end up killing the good programs.
If you are an employee of a large company, antipatents would help to ensure that you could always use your ideas. The company would not be able to stop you from using your creation.
This is also a reason why antipatents will never become law in any country controlled by large corporations who feed on the knowledge of their underpaid employees and later throw these people out on the street when they have no ideas left.
The problem with the web is that the people who attempt to control it do not understand it.
They do not understand that no matter how many laws they create, the people will always find a way to acces the information they want. If only one country has this law, servers in other countries will be totally unaffected.
The solution is clear, set up your server in Iraq. No american companies will be able to touch you.
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Maybe this will teach software companies to put less pressure overworked programmers trying desperately to meet unrealistic deadlines. They don't realize that people don't work well when they don't have time to do their jobs properly. Many of these companies will never learn their lesson, if you doubt me, look at he number of known security holes in a certain operating system fittingly named after a hole in a wall.
As soon as one company starts giving away money to anyone with spare CPU power, many others companies with similar claims will spring up overnight. Soon there will be so many that people will begin mass mailing viruses or spying programs disguised as programs that pay you. Most people would say that if someone is dumb enough to open attachments in mail from someone thay do not know, they deserve to be spied on and have their important files or even their entire hard drive erased, but this might end up killing the good programs.
If you are an employee of a large company, antipatents would help to ensure that you could always use your ideas. The company would not be able to stop you from using your creation.
This is also a reason why antipatents will never become law in any country controlled by large corporations who feed on the knowledge of their underpaid employees and later throw these people out on the street when they have no ideas left.
The problem with the web is that the people who attempt to control it do not understand it.
They do not understand that no matter how many laws they create, the people will always find a way to acces the information they want. If only one country has this law, servers in other countries will be totally unaffected.
The solution is clear, set up your server in Iraq. No american companies will be able to touch you.