From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Tue Dec 21 1999 - 21:08:56 MST
"Robert J. Bradbury" wrote:
>
> On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 CurtAdams@aol.com wrote:
>
> > and c) creating complex negotiating requirements to address
> > all the possible infringements.
>
> That is the entire *point* of inventions.
hahaha, that just sounds sick
>
> I have two possible paths before me:
> 1) I can go work as a contract programmer for some XYZ company
> programming whatever they would like to have programmed.
> 2) I can *invent* things that may contribute to the productivity
> of society, patent those inventions and have companies & organizations
> coming to me to license those inventions.
>
> If you elimiminate patent/copyright/trademark law, you eliminate
> the motivation for (2). At that point I'm going to go and be a
> stupid contract programmer because there is nothing to prevent
> anyone from stealing anything I invent.
Nooooo. There is a 3rd option that any good capitalist knows: after
you invent your widget, you form your own business to sell and
develop it- thereby making yourself a lot of $$$ (you hope). Patenting
something and then sitting there doing nothing with it except suing
others for money is the height of laziness/decadence. Anti-extropian
even?
-- Sig under construction
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