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Kill software patentsKill software patentsPosted Dec 5, 2008 0:38 UTC (Fri) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)In reply to: Kill software patents by dwheeler Parent article: KSM runs into patent trouble
My favourite piece of anti-patent text is published on IP Australia web site (our equivalent of USPTO):
http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/strategies/case_kambrk.shtml
Quite obviously:
- the inventor invented without patent protection
I swear, if I didn't know better, I'd say that it was written by a disgruntled employee. There are overtones of sarcasm too - it completely reverts the logic as to why the patents are supposed to be a good idea (i.e. they tout "maximum profits for the inventor" rather than "public good"). It ends with "the inventor discovered our legally sanctined monopolies and is a happy monopolist these days". Hilarious!
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Kill software patents Posted Dec 5, 2008 23:49 UTC (Fri) by bignose (subscriber, #40) [Link]
I'm not confident, as you seem to be, that the author of the cited article had any awareness of the irony. It seems more a straightforward promotion of the “mission” of the site: to encourage treating ideas as property.
I find all too little indication they have any awareness of a motivation for getting good ideas into the public domain. Instead, the *entire site* appears to buy into the idea that artificial, legally-enforced restriction of natural usage of information is a good thing because it's a motive for the gatekeepers to profit.
Kill software patents Posted Dec 7, 2008 1:01 UTC (Sun) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]
Oh, no! Quite the opposite - I'm quite sure they aren't aware of it (I had a private e-mail exchange with them and they indicated that they are completely unaware of the true purpose of the patent system). That's what makes it so hilarious. And sad.
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