Hear, hear! If Jon Katz has an idea for changing the system of distributing music, let's hear it. But until that time, what those 300K people are doing is stealing. No other way to describe it.
I think we should go ahead and post Jon's books on the internet, and see how he responds.
Back in '95 I worked at E-Systems on the ground station software (my particular piece was image viewers). It was my favorite project in all of my 18-year career. They were trying to do it right - OO development with OO CASE tools, incremental development, analysis, design, and code reviews, paying attention to the CMU SEI capability and maturity model. Fun project.
> Much of the concern about human gene patenting > has involved Craig Venter, a pioneering US > scientist and entrepreneur. His company, Celera, > has claimed it will sequence the 100,000 genes > before an international collaboration, the Human > Genome Project, does so. This could allow > Professor Venter to patent the genes.
I can buy the idea of a country having a patent system to promote innovation by allowing companies to have patents on discoveries so they can recoup their investments. But it looks like the Human Genome Project is going to do it anyway, so why should we allow *any* company to profit from it? It looks like in this case we don't need to motivate the companies to do the task because it's already being done.
It looks like Craig Venter is *racing* the HGP to discover the human genomes. It's not like he's the only one doing it and needs encouragement. He's just looking to cash in before someone else (HGP) discovers it. Where is the benefit to the citizenry here?
The Atlantic Monthly is a difficult but rewarding read. It requires an industrial-strenght attention span. Its (notice correct form) readers aren't necessarily technically oriented but they've got to be fairly smart to understand it. Linux is an important phenomenon and these folks need to hear about it.
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Hear, hear! If Jon Katz has an idea for changing
the system of distributing music, let's hear it.
But until that time, what those 300K people are
doing is stealing. No other way to describe it.
I think we should go ahead and post Jon's books on
the internet, and see how he responds.
Back in '95 I worked at E-Systems on the ground
station software (my particular piece was image
viewers). It was my favorite project in all of
my 18-year career. They were trying to do it
right - OO development with OO CASE tools,
incremental development, analysis, design, and
code reviews, paying attention to the CMU SEI
capability and maturity model. Fun project.
> Much of the concern about human gene patenting
> has involved Craig Venter, a pioneering US
> scientist and entrepreneur. His company, Celera,
> has claimed it will sequence the 100,000 genes
> before an international collaboration, the Human
> Genome Project, does so. This could allow
> Professor Venter to patent the genes.
I can buy the idea of a country having a patent
system to promote innovation by allowing companies
to have patents on discoveries so they can recoup
their investments. But it looks like the Human
Genome Project is going to do it anyway, so why
should we allow *any* company to profit from it?
It looks like in this case we don't need to
motivate the companies to do the task because it's
already being done.
It looks like Craig Venter is *racing* the HGP
to discover the human genomes. It's not like
he's the only one doing it and needs
encouragement. He's just looking to cash in
before someone else (HGP) discovers it.
Where is the benefit to the citizenry here?
The Atlantic Monthly is a difficult but rewarding
read. It requires an industrial-strenght
attention span. Its (notice correct form)
readers aren't necessarily technically
oriented but they've got to be fairly smart
to understand it. Linux is an important
phenomenon and these folks need to hear about
it.