I know the patent system in the US has problems but this really seems like an issue for each individual patent holder.
It is their choice to hold and enforce the patent OR to sell royalties/rights at whatever price they desire. If they won't sell the rights to use their patents and they loose market share because of it than they are to blame, not the patent system.
Why is it that everyone at slashdot feels like they have the rights to any information that is out there?
This person stole technology plans while working at a law firm. He didn't reverse engineer, he stole. This is illegal and should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. This is not a case of our rights being stepped on. This is a case of the rights of a company to trust that when they disclose something to a law firm that it won't end up all over the internet.
One thing that always bothers me about these debates is that I think there are two separate issues that people get mixed up with.
One is the debate on whether or not man evolved from monkeys and the other is the age of the earth. True most conservative Christians believe that the earth was created in a literal seven days but in my opinion that is mostly due to their desire to avoid giving any length of time for evolution to happen.
For my personal belief I think that the age of the earth is very, very old (I am not a literal 7 days person) due to a large amount of scientific evidence and more theological flexibility in Genesis chapter one, however I do have theological issues with evolution mainly based on the fall of Adam (Genesis 2 and 3) and the comparisson of Adam to Christ (Romans 5:12-21) but this is not really the forum to discuss...
The fact is though that I believe nature shows truth about God and that the Bible shows truth about God. I don't believe that either are in error but that our view of one or the other is.
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I know the patent system in the US has problems but this really seems like an issue for each individual patent holder.
It is their choice to hold and enforce the patent OR to sell royalties/rights at whatever price they desire. If they won't sell the rights to use their patents and they loose market share because of it than they are to blame, not the patent system.
Why is it that everyone at slashdot feels like they have the rights to any information that is out there?
This person stole technology plans while working at a law firm. He didn't reverse engineer, he stole. This is illegal and should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. This is not a case of our rights being stepped on. This is a case of the rights of a company to trust that when they disclose something to a law firm that it won't end up all over the internet.
One thing that always bothers me about these debates is that I think there are two separate issues that people get mixed up with.
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One is the debate on whether or not man evolved from monkeys and the other is the age of the earth. True most conservative Christians believe that the earth was created in a literal seven days but in my opinion that is mostly due to their desire to avoid giving any length of time for evolution to happen.
For my personal belief I think that the age of the earth is very, very old (I am not a literal 7 days person) due to a large amount of scientific evidence and more theological flexibility in Genesis chapter one, however I do have theological issues with evolution mainly based on the fall of Adam (Genesis 2 and 3) and the comparisson of Adam to Christ (Romans 5:12-21) but this is not really the forum to discuss
The fact is though that I believe nature shows truth about God and that the Bible shows truth about God. I don't believe that either are in error but that our view of one or the other is.