| Laughing Man |
2009-04-15 18:10 |
Re: The end of multitouch for...everyone?
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Originally Posted by mullf
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Which is one of the geniuses of the Constitution, that it provides for updating. Feel free to lobby for an amendment eliminating patents and copyrights if you want.
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I have and continue doing so. Though lobbying politicans doesn't end well if you don't have deep pockets. :mad:
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But they get paid for their work. Try offering them a contract saying they have to pay for all their research on their own without salary and others can use it without paying them anything for it.
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Yes, they do get paid for their work. And most of the time other people can use their research without paying them for it. They just have to cite the idea and what not was originally theirs.
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You think the rate of technological advance was the same then as it is now? Besides, there was not modern economy back then. And don't forget what the promise of a monetary reward played in solving the longitude problem.
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Ah, but the same technological advance has lead to things like the Internet which offers now infinite way to replicate ideas and digital products. So if the argument is that times are different, then one could also just argue that times are now different again and in this day and era patents and copyrights are not needed in the form they are now. Our as my research methods professor would put it, the model has become outdated and needs to be updated or replaced.
And yes there were some monetary rewards (in the case of Gunpowder I think it was because they were seeking a formula for immortality). Changing patents and copyrights won't influence that. In fact it may increase the rate of progress since people would actually have to continue making advances and discoveries instead of sitting on the one egg they found. Again, not saying they aren't needed (see previous post, last paragraph). It just needs to be reformed.
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That's only a problem in the United States. All other countries have patent rights to first inventor to file, not first inventor to invent.
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I'm not familar with other countries' patent system. Only the US (I have a family member that works in the patent office but on the reviewing level). Frequently there are problems with patents being claimed when they've already been issued (the patent office is bogged down so they rarely do prior existence checks well enough).
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