Heh, China... [LWN.net]

Heh, China...

Posted Aug 12, 2011 5:47 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: The mobile patent mess may get worse by cmccabe
Parent article: The mobile patent mess may get worse

It's difficult to decode the lawyer-ese, but it seems as though software can be patented in China.

Everything can be patented in China... and it does not matter one jot. Just like copyrights are selectively enforced patents will be selectively enforced when it'll suit the political landscape. Any company which will try to attack other companies with patents will have a lot of troubles with government... unless it attacks foreign company - then it's all the better for China so it's Ok.

They don't even bother about the grand scale political circuses.

Yup. People are replete, fat and stupid. But times are changing (take a look here - can you see when "Great Recession" ended? No? Then you know the truth: it was not a "Great Recession", it's "Greater Depression",it continues and only slowdown phase will go for ~10 years or so), eventually they will react... too late, likely, as usual.

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Posted Aug 12, 2011 9:44 UTC (Fri) by forlwn (guest, #63934) [Link] (2 responses)

Unfortunately, economics is not an exact science, like maths. That means that there will never be a true receipt for a certain disease. Expectations and subjective factors play an important rule. Latest strong players entering the game and huge amounts of money that can easily travel around the world, may lead to uncontrolled mass movements, leading to a time bomb of unpredicted consequences.

Heh, China...

Posted Aug 12, 2011 13:52 UTC (Fri) by Topaz (guest, #60130) [Link] (1 responses)

Mathematics is not and will never be an exact science. Gödel's incompleteness theorems

Heh, China...

Posted Aug 12, 2011 14:08 UTC (Fri) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

> Gödel's incompleteness theorems

If exact sciences had to be complete, no science would be exact.

Please no pedantic and formal definition of what an "exact science" is. It is really not needed for mutual understanding.

Economics is exact enough :-)

Posted Aug 12, 2011 18:34 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] (1 responses)

Actually economics is pretty close to "exact" science like thermodynamics. You can not predict exact direction of it but you can find limits. Reaganomics started the spiral when insolvent companies were artificially kept alive when it looked like enough of them can go bankrupt and crash the economy. It was done using quite simple yet effective instrument - but it does not work anymore. If you compare numbers it's easy to see that a lot of "wealth" must evaporate. There are a lot of ways to go, but "up" is not in the cards: you can decide who will go bankrupt and when, but you no longer have the ability to keep all of this imaginary wealth around.

Economics is exact enough :-)

Posted Aug 14, 2011 2:24 UTC (Sun) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

no, it isn't, but your comment is off-topic unless you can explain how the exactness or inexactness of economics relates to the mobile patent situation. At least on Slashdot there's a way to moderate thread-hijackers down.