Software patents make the patenting country produce more expensive, inferior software than a country that doesn't have patents. All source code should be free and shared, patent should be eliminated from all countries.
Patents serve virtually no beneficial purpose save to give credit to the people who have done something. Patents can be useful in other industries, such as automobiles, home appliances, etc.. But software is quicker to produce, and with no patents, would become faster yet. Free source code would help produce cheaper, more efficient programs. Without patents slowing businesses down, computer software would advance even faster than it already does.
Why should software patents that serve no practical purpose be allowed? What beneficial purpose do they serve that outweighs the bonuses of outlawing them?
Many people dream of a utopian world, free of poverty, war, and crime. Source code sharing helps eliminate petty competetion and strife, thereby furthering the (perhaps not completely achievable) goal of a perfect world. This world may be exist only in dreams, but people should always chase after their dreams. If people did not dream where would we be now? We would never have evolved past primitive stone tools, hunting to survive. We must all dream to succeed, ambition is undeniably an important part of human life.
While there have been great robotic successes, it is important to note that NASA is also getting rid of some of its more prominent programs such as the Hubble Telescope. NASA is reducing funding to many of its programs so that they can design and create a new space shuttle. The Hubble Space Telescope, for instance, is no longer going to recieve maintenance and in a few years it will no longer be functional. We must not look only to our past and current robotic successes (and failures) but also to the future programs. NASA is going to cause a lot of trouble in its unmanned space flight programs by increasing the funding to its manned program, without recieving additional funding from the government.
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Software patents make the patenting country produce more expensive, inferior software than a country that doesn't have patents. All source code should be free and shared, patent should be eliminated from all countries.
Patents serve virtually no beneficial purpose save to give credit to the people who have done something. Patents can be useful in other industries, such as automobiles, home appliances, etc.. But software is quicker to produce, and with no patents, would become faster yet. Free source code would help produce cheaper, more efficient programs. Without patents slowing businesses down, computer software would advance even faster than it already does.
Why should software patents that serve no practical purpose be allowed? What beneficial purpose do they serve that outweighs the bonuses of outlawing them?
Many people dream of a utopian world, free of poverty, war, and crime. Source code sharing helps eliminate petty competetion and strife, thereby furthering the (perhaps not completely achievable) goal of a perfect world. This world may be exist only in dreams, but people should always chase after their dreams. If people did not dream where would we be now? We would never have evolved past primitive stone tools, hunting to survive. We must all dream to succeed, ambition is undeniably an important part of human life.
While there have been great robotic successes, it is important to note that NASA is also getting rid of some of its more prominent programs such as the Hubble Telescope. NASA is reducing funding to many of its programs so that they can design and create a new space shuttle. The Hubble Space Telescope, for instance, is no longer going to recieve maintenance and in a few years it will no longer be functional. We must not look only to our past and current robotic successes (and failures) but also to the future programs. NASA is going to cause a lot of trouble in its unmanned space flight programs by increasing the funding to its manned program, without recieving additional funding from the government.