Abolish Patents! Bring Back rapiers, and firearms for Gentlemen
Joe, good to see you and your two faced employer are both clearly agreed that what intellectual property you create - your software is very protected even to the extent of threats of arrests by the FBI against the bold thieves! The proof of same being clear at the very bottom of this web page to wit:
" 2012 CBS Interactive. All rights reserved."
Sometimes I too produce copyright material but when it is a core new construction of an algorithm, circuit, physical part or collection thereof not just the exact or nearly exact words of an incantation it's called (if novel) an INVENTION. Regardless of the words that describe it it works just well.
Seeing how to create novel things is what I do for living and its something ONLY people not companies can do.
Hey though don't get me wrong before our patent system existed, new things were made and the ways of making them like certain samarai, or toledo swords, and certain violins and many other things ARE completely lost to history. They were not patented and the trade secrets died with the makers. Or in some cases where theft or simple rediscovery was made the conflict between parties was settled shall we say in a permanent manner.
Ya, ya no patents the best way to create a new world by the same people who brought you water torture and the final solution.
