Why do you think it's "troll post"?

Posted Apr 25, 2011 22:57 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: A victory for the trolls by MisterIO
Parent article: A victory for the trolls

To me it looks like quite logical and real solution. Compare with "hot new industry of XIX century": chemistry. By the 1862 British firms controlled 50% of the market and and French firms controlled 40%. They had quite good patent protection. It was so good in fact that in 11 years time they lost most of the market (German companies had 50%). Later Germans were convinced to enact limited patent law so process slowed down: by 1913 they only had 80% of the market. More information here.

It'll be interesting to see how fast software development will be moved out of US - and what exactly will be moved first.

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Why do you think it's "troll post"?

Posted Apr 26, 2011 0:16 UTC (Tue) by klbrun (subscriber, #45083) [Link] (2 responses)

Youtube is not permitted in China; neither is Facebook. I don't see software development of these products moving to China. Google has had other issues with China as well.

Russia is similarly authoritarian, Africa lacks in infrastructure, Latin America has various nationalisms that are coming to the fore, Canada lacks the population. People have predicted software would leave the US for India for over 30 years; hasn't happened yet.

There is a reason things are the way they are. Changes would be against inertia.

Why do you think it's "troll post"?

Posted Apr 26, 2011 1:04 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (1 responses)

Why not Europe? Western and Eastern Europe have fairly sane laws and not many software patents (yet).

Why do you think it's "troll post"?

Posted Apr 26, 2011 4:45 UTC (Tue) by FlorianMueller (guest, #32048) [Link]

You are wrong about the European situation: there are large numbers of software patents in Europe (many tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands), the courts uphold them, and there's also some litigation going on, such as Apple suing Nokia in the UK and in Germany over 9 European software patents.

Also, more fundamentally, patents regulate target markets, not countries of origin. If a company is based in a no-software-patents jurisdiction, it is still affected by them once it tries to serve markets that have software patents.

Why do you think it's "troll post"?

Posted Apr 26, 2011 2:50 UTC (Tue) by njs (subscriber, #40338) [Link]

But it doesn't matter where the software is developed -- for patents, what matters most is where the market is. Probably in the long term the US market will be less important, and as that happens we USians will have to accept inferior software (or illegal downloads, cf. mplayer) so long as our patent system remains more broken than that in other places.