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- From: Simo Sorce <simo.sorce@xsec.it>
- To: Gregory Aharonian <srctran@world.std.com>
- Cc: patents@aful.org
- Subject: Re: [Patents] Paper: "Rent Seeking and Innovation"
- Date: 17 Apr 2003 22:05:21 +0200
- Organization: Xsec s.r.l.
On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 20:52, Gregory Aharonian wrote:
> > ... since ancedotal evidence strongly suggests that intellectural
> > ... property reduces rather than encourages innovation
>
> Which is a meaningless statement in light of emprical evidence showing
> that the amount of innovation, as measured by new articles, papers,
> books, music, art, new technical products, etc., continues to grow.
> Anything slow down to the contrary is moe due to the state of the
> stock market than IP issues.
They are tightly connected.
Many industries thinks that IP is something magical that turns
automatically into profit, and its not, rather they found a new way to
get suffocated in a moment were money are low: the expenses connected to
the software patent system.
Simo.
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