I would prefer the government had focused on dismantling Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan, since they were actually responsible for 9/11 and are still mostly not held to account. I would have preferred they hadn't gone off on a tangent and off the deep end in Iraq and in spying in the U.S.
Unfortunately there's no business case for the former -- hell there's a great case to keep those scarey boogy men out there; while there's been an absolutely huge case ($$$lobbiying effort$$$) made by 'good upstanding patriotic American companies'. "of course our product xxxxx will help catch 'Terrorists', just invest $(M/B) and we'll show you".
Shysters to the nth degree, but they speak the language the currnet government understands - private business can do anything in this country.
Additionally, the words "Corporation, Company, or Employer" are noticably absent. The constitution is addressing an individual's right to compensation and protection, for a limited period, for their development of a unique item or process.
The patent (copyright) should reside with the individual(s) responsible and they could license the use of the patent to their employer but could never wholly assign it to any entity other than themselves.
Radiate.com has some interesting additions to the standard EULA..."you understand that this software will connect to the Internet UBIQUITOUSLY to download advertisements and/or to provide software updates"... HMMMM nice Trojan potential.
And of course...."you agree not to alter, decompile, disassemble, or reverse engineer the SOFTWARE PRODUCT, in whole or in part, whether for error correction or otherwise" Don't try to fix it.
And finally... "NO LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES...EVEN IF RADIATE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES." Don't even bother telling us - we don't care.
All these made me block the UBIQUITOUS connections (via port 1975) to their web site I saw on our network. Nice thing is none of the users has noticed a lack of functionality with the ad sponsored "free" software and no unexpected updates.
I can't agree with your interpretation which focuses on the promotion of science and art while totally ignoring the following phrase, "...securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right...". Exclusive is a very strong term moderated by the "for limited times". This clearly stipulates that the original autor or inventor has complete control of their IP but only for a limited duration, after which it becomes open for other's use.
The great problem with our current corporate climate is that the original author does not own most of their IP, the company they work for does. Every place I've ever worked has required the assigning of inventions to the corporation. Even my college research projects were jointly owned by the university & me. This is clearly a subversion of the constitutional intent of this passage. How can one, a priori, give away the rights to their thoughts and ideas? The way most agreements are written even items totally unrelated to the company are the "the company's property". Needless to say this can actually have a chilling effect on inovation, knowing that your good ideas are not your own has kept many people I know from disclosing them, since the company probably wouldn't use them and certainly wouldn't credit you... but hey you've food an your plate and a great idea in your head.
The only option is to go it alone and hope you can push your product far enough before your limited time is up. The corporations can play a waiting game knowing they have more resources than you and a very short time to wait--then they can walk in and profit from your ingenuity. What is really needed is protection for the original author which can not be assigned and continues with limited rights in perpetuity following the period of exclusivity.
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With an infection like that the only thing to do is
1) nuke from orbit and
2) reinstall from known free sources (NO spy/adware supported items).
Unfortunately there's no business case for the former -- hell there's a great case to keep those scarey boogy men out there; while there's been an absolutely huge case ($$$lobbiying effort$$$) made by 'good upstanding patriotic American companies'. "of course our product xxxxx will help catch 'Terrorists', just invest $(M/B) and we'll show you".
Shysters to the nth degree, but they speak the language the currnet government understands - private business can do anything in this country.
Additionally, the words "Corporation, Company, or Employer" are noticably absent. The constitution is addressing an individual's right to compensation and protection, for a limited period, for their development of a unique item or process.
The patent (copyright) should reside with the individual(s) responsible and they could license the use of the patent to their employer but could never wholly assign it to any entity other than themselves.
Radiate.com has some interesting additions to the standard EULA..."you understand that this software will connect to the Internet UBIQUITOUSLY to download advertisements and/or to provide software updates"... HMMMM nice Trojan potential.
... "NO LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES...EVEN IF RADIATE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES." Don't even bother telling us - we don't care.
And of course...."you agree not to alter, decompile, disassemble, or reverse engineer the SOFTWARE PRODUCT, in whole or in part, whether for error correction or otherwise" Don't try to fix it.
And finally
All these made me block the UBIQUITOUS connections (via port 1975) to their web site I saw on our network. Nice thing is none of the users has noticed a lack of functionality with the ad sponsored "free" software and no unexpected updates.
I can't agree with your interpretation which focuses on the promotion of science and art while totally ignoring the following phrase, "...securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right...". Exclusive is a very strong term moderated by the "for limited times". This clearly stipulates that the original autor or inventor has complete control of their IP but only for a limited duration, after which it becomes open for other's use.
The great problem with our current corporate climate is that the original author does not own most of their IP, the company they work for does. Every place I've ever worked has required the assigning of inventions to the corporation. Even my college research projects were jointly owned by the university & me. This is clearly a subversion of the constitutional intent of this passage. How can one, a priori, give away the rights to their thoughts and ideas? The way most agreements are written even items totally unrelated to the company are the "the company's property". Needless to say this can actually have a chilling effect on inovation, knowing that your good ideas are not your own has kept many people I know from disclosing them, since the company probably wouldn't use them and certainly wouldn't credit you... but hey you've food an your plate and a great idea in your head.
The only option is to go it alone and hope you can push your product far enough before your limited time is up. The corporations can play a waiting game knowing they have more resources than you and a very short time to wait--then they can walk in and profit from your ingenuity. What is really needed is protection for the original author which can not be assigned and continues with limited rights in perpetuity following the period of exclusivity.
Just a thought.....