Large corporations, which have lots of resources, would be able to patent anything imaginable with this system provided they do it first. It's to their advantage in order to stifle competition. I think the legislation should instead put a cap on the number of patents any entity (corporate or individual) can be awarded in a given year. This would force large corporations like Microsoft or IBM to concentrate on what they really think is innovative and likely to be worth licensing and only patent those; if they just throw up a bunch of patents to see what stick, they risk patenting something trivial or worthless and losing potential patents later on truly valuable intellectual property.
From the Office Depot memo:
"As you know, applications and devices that meet or exceed Microsoft's technical requirements..."
Everyone knows how hard it is.
Then, plaster her (cute, innocent, doe-eyed) face all over the net and all over CNN and every other TV network in the world and have Linus Torvalds himself explain that "this terrible injustice could happen to your teenager! And all this just for downloading a music file!!".
Not likely. Consider the phrase CNN: a Time-Warner company.
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Large corporations, which have lots of resources, would be able to patent anything imaginable with this system provided they do it first. It's to their advantage in order to stifle competition. I think the legislation should instead put a cap on the number of patents any entity (corporate or individual) can be awarded in a given year. This would force large corporations like Microsoft or IBM to concentrate on what they really think is innovative and likely to be worth licensing and only patent those; if they just throw up a bunch of patents to see what stick, they risk patenting something trivial or worthless and losing potential patents later on truly valuable intellectual property.
"I can't help but think of the immortal words of Socrates when he said, 'I drank what?'". Or something to that effect.
This movie motivated me to quit my dead-end $35,000 programming job and go back to grad school for 5 years of fun and squalor.
From the Office Depot memo: "As you know, applications and devices that meet or exceed Microsoft's technical requirements..." Everyone knows how hard it is.
Then, plaster her (cute, innocent, doe-eyed) face all over the net and all over CNN and every other TV network in the world and have Linus Torvalds himself explain that "this terrible injustice could happen to your teenager! And all this just for downloading a music file!!". Not likely. Consider the phrase CNN: a Time-Warner company.