[Patents] Patents required for investment?

[phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)]

> >The patent system is not about giving venture capitalists or IP lawyers
> >what they 'demand'.  It is about striking a balance between limited
> >monopoly and open competition, in the public interest.
>
> Yet one more patenting aspect that software technology shares with all
> other areas of technology.  You guys are starting to come up with some
> pretty good reasons why the patentability of software should be no
> different than anything else, since they all share so many of the same
> problems and concerns.

Ed explicitely wrote:  "the patent system ..."

No claim about software patents was made in the text on which you comment.

Let's list up Greg's wisdoms once more:

- matter is a kind of information, there is no categorial difference
  between the two
- all new ideas need to have an owner
- knowledge production should never be publicly financed because that
  would mean giving tax money to competitors
- copyright isn't applicable to functional writing such as software
- any criticism that can be applied to both A and B shows that A and B
  are not separate entities.
- any text in which the word "software" can be substituted by the word
  "hardware" proves that both are the same
- The above is true even when the substitution renders the text
  meaningless

...

It would be nice to have a dedicated webpage on Greg's logic, so as to be
able to study it and make some sense of it.

-phm